When Robert Spooner was born about 1814, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Spooner, was 24 and his mother, Mary Unwin, was 20. He married Ann Broomhead on 24 January 1836, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom for about 40 years. He died in March 1883, at the age of 70.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
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.
English: occupational name from an unrecorded Middle English sponer, of uncertain meaning. It appears to be a derivative of Middle English spon ‘chip of wood, shingle, spoon’, and could denote either someone who made or fitted wooden roofing shingles or who made and sold spoons as eating implements, typically of wood or horn.
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