When George Rainbow was born about 1832, in Toddington, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Rainbow, was 24 and his mother, Mary Ann Hatherway or Attaway, was 23. He married Susannah Simmons on 5 October 1851, in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1904, at the age of 73.
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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.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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 (of Norman origin): altered form of the Old French personal name Rainbaut, Raimbaut, Raimbault, Rambaut (ancient Germanic Raginbald, Rainbald, Reinbald, from ragin ‘counsel, decision’ + bald ‘brave’). The form of the name has since been affected by folk etymological association with the vocabulary word rainbow. Compare Raybould and Rambert .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Regenbogen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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