When Josiah Bethell was born in 1835, in Didsbury, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Bethell, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Brundrett, was 26. He married Ann Fisher about June 1875, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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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.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
Welsh: variant of Bethel .
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