When Mary Ann Jones was born on 6 August 1840, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Shenton Jones, was 34 and her mother, Lucy Price, was 35. She married Edwin Ladbrook in 1861, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Bordesley Holy Trinity, Warwickshire, England in 1891 and Aston Manor, Warwickshire, England in 1901. She died in 1923, in Worcestershire, England, at the age of 83.
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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.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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