When Frances Beauchamp was born in 1833, in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Beauchamp, was 32 and her mother, Mary Northeast, was 28. She lived in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, England, United Kingdom in 1851.
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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.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Some characteristic forenames: French Antoine, Jacques, Yves, Andre, Armand, Emile, Fernand, Marcel, Marthe, Remi, Alcide, Camille.
English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from any of several places in France, for example in Manche and Somme, that are named with Old French beu, bel ‘fair, lovely’ + champ(s) ‘field, plain’ (from Latin bello campo ‘beautiful field’). In English the surname is generally pronounced Beecham . Compare Bushaw .
English: in some cases, an Anglo-Norman French adaptation of Scottish Campbell , by translation into French of the folk etymology de campo bello ‘from the fair field’.
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