When Ann Backhouse was born in 1838, in Aughton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Backhouse, was 33 and her mother, Martha Brighouse, was 34.
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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.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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.
English: locative name, occupational name for someone who worked at a bakery, from Middle English bak(e)hous ‘bake-house, bakery’.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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