When Joseph Pickup was born on 10 July 1825, in Crawshawbooth, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Pickup, was 28 and his mother, Mary Eastwood, was 28. He married Hannah Wilkinson in 1852, in Haslingden, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Higher Booths, Lancashire, England in 1881 and Accrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 21 October 1888, at the age of 63, and was buried in Goodshaw, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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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.
The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire, so called from Old English pīc ‘point’ + copp ‘top’, i.e. a hill with a sharp peak.
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