When Sarah Edgel was born about 1820, in Headley, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Edgel, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Larbey, was 25. She married George Gosden on 26 November 1845, in St Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 2 May 1856, in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 37, and was buried in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Fritz, Heinz, Rainer, Otto, Albrecht, Alois, Benno, Dieter, Elfriede, Erwin.
German, Dutch, and Danish: from a short form of various ancient Germanic personal names (see, for example, Engelbert and Engelhard ). A number of different elements have fallen together in Engel-, mainly Ingal, extended form of Ing, the name of an ancient Germanic god or folk hero, and Angel ‘Angle’. The Angles were an ancient Germanic tribe living on the Jutland peninsula; in the 5th–6th centuries they invaded eastern and northern Britain and gave their name to England (Old English Englaland ‘land of the Angles’).
German and Dutch: topographic or habitational name referring to a house bearing the sign of an angel, Middle High German engel. This surname, in both possible senses (see also 1 above), is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
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