Elizabeth Jane King

Brief Life History of Elizabeth Jane

When Elizabeth Jane King was born on 1 February 1813, in Broadmayne, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas King, was 34 and her mother, Mary Anne Morris, was 24. She married Richard Spranklin on 31 May 1841, in Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in South Stoneham, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Bitterne, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. She died from January 1880 to March 1880, in Brentford, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, and was buried in Bitterne, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.

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Family Time Line

Richard Spranklin
1809–1875
Elizabeth Jane King
1813–1880
Marriage: 31 May 1841
Mary Elizabeth Spranklin
1842–1922
Charles Arthur Spranklin
1851–1934
Emily Jane Spranklin
1843–1907
George H Spranklin
1848–1929
Henry Spranklin
1849–1929
Eliza Jane Spranklin
1849–1900

Sources (19)

  • Jane Spranklin, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
  • Jane King, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Jane King, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "

World Events (6)

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor

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.

Name Meaning

English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.

English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.

Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable (which means ‘king’ in Irish).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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