When Eliza Phillips was born on 2 October 1842, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, David Morgan Phillips, was 37 and her mother, Mary Griffith, was 38. She married Joseph Dalton about 1858, in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Cardiff St Mary, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom for about 40 years and Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1901. She died on 19 December 1925, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 83, and was buried in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom.
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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.
The Great Reform Act of 1867 gave males the right to vote. This also helped to form the Welsh Liberal Party. It was the second of three reforms that would take place.
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
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