When Francis James Evans was born on 3 November 1860, in Eldersfield, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Evans, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Anne Hanford Weaver, was 18. He married Rose Preece on 3 March 1885, in Chaceley, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Ashchurch, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. He died on 4 March 1946, in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 85.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
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