Brief Life History of Ellen
When Ellen Stubbs was born in December 1852, in Longton Exchange, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Stubbs, was 21 and her mother, Ellen Bridgwood, was 22. She married William Donkin Robinson on 22 September 1870, in Fenton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Longton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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- Ellen Robinson in household of William Robinson, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ellen Stubbs - birth-name: Ellen Stubbs
- Ellen Stubbs, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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1854 · The Crimean War
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.
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
English:
variant of Stubbe with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
perhaps occasionally a topographic name from Middle English stub(be) ‘tree stump’ + hous ‘house’, used for someone who lived in a house by a tree stump.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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