Brief Life History of Phoebe
When Phoebe Diamond was born on 15 April 1827, in Beaford, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Diamond, was 32 and her mother, Mary Ford, was 33. She married William Cudmore on 19 January 1847, in Charlottetown, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1915, in Prince Edward Island, Canada, at the age of 88.
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- Phoebe Diamond, "Prince Edward Island Marriage Registers, 1832-1888"
- Phoebe Dyment, "England, Devon, Parish Registers (Devon Record Office), 1529-1974"
- Phebe Diamond in entry for John Thomas Cudmore and Emma Catherine Mc Williams, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
1854 · The Crimean War
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.
Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from an Anglicized form of a metonymic occupational name for a diamond worker, derived from German Diamant, French and Dutch diamant ‘diamond’, or Yiddish dime(n)t, from medieval Latin diamas, genitive diamantis, and ultimately from Greek adamas ‘unconquerable’, genitive adamantos, a reference to the hardness of the stone.
English: from the rare Middle English female personal name Diamand, derived from Old French diamaunt, diamaund ‘diamond’, found in Middle English as diamound, deamaunt, and deamon. The name may alternatively be a variant of Daymon or a pet form of the Middle English personal name Day , to which the hypocoristic suffix -man has been added.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Diamáin ‘descendant of Diamán’, earlier Díomá or Déamán, a diminutive of Díoma, itself a pet form of Diarmaid (see McDermott ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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