When Elizabeth Danby was born in 1824, in Routh, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Danby, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Smith, was 25. She lived in Routh, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Beverley, Yorkshire, England in 1901. She died on 7 January 1905, in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 81, and was buried in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
English: habitational name from Danby in North Yorkshire, originally named in Old Norse as Danabȳ ‘settlement of the Danes’, and thus cognate with Denby .
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