When Mary Ann Tasker was born on 2 December 1871, in Freiston, Lincolnshire, England, her father, John Tasker, was 39 and her mother, Mary Wilkinson, was 36. She married William Dale on 17 May 1893, in Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom for about 58 years.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): occupational name for someone who did piece-work (especially someone who threshed grain), from an unrecorded Middle English tasker, a derivative of Middle English task(e) ‘task, piece of work’ (Old French tasque), for someone who was paid for piece-work, especially threshing grain.
In some cases also Slovenian (Tašker): occupational name for a maker of purses, bags, derived from taška ‘bag’, a loanword from German (see Taschner ).
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