Brief Life History of John
When John Eastwood was born in 1834, in Higher Booths, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Eastwood, was 40 and his mother, Anne Taylor, was 42. He married Susy Cryer in December 1865, in Dunnockshaw, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Newchurch in Rossendale, Lancashire, England in 1851 and Dunnockshaw, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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- John Eastwood in household of Henry Eastwood, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- John Eastwood, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- John, "England, Manchester, Parish Registers, 1603-1910"
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1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1878 · Bacup Natural History Society
The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from any of various places called Eastwood, such as in Keighley, Rotherham, or Todmorden (all Yorkshire), or Eastwood in Nottinghamshire. Most of these placenames come from Old English ēast ‘east’ + wudu ‘wood’, but Eastwood in Nottinghamshire originally had as its final element Old Norse thveit ‘clearing’ (see Thwaites ). Compare Astwood .
English (Devon): from Eastwood in Peters Marland or Inwardleigh (both Devon), named with Middle English bi este wode ‘(place) to the east of the wood’.
Probably also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Oostwoud: habitational name from the village Oostwoud in the province of North Holland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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