When Joseph Knipe was born on 31 March 1824, in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Isaac Knipe, was 28 and his mother, Bridget Gaitskell, was 28. He lived in Osmotherley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Lowick, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died in 1870, in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 46, and was buried in Lowick, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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The Museum of Lancashire is located in the former courthouse of Preston in Lancashire, England. The building was designed by Thomas Rickman. Some the exhibits include Lancashire through the years, at work, at play, goes to war, and law and order. All depict different times and events in Lancashire county. The museum closed in 2015 and is now only opened for scheduled appointments.
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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: habitational name from High and Low Knipe in Bampton (Westmorland). The placename derives from Old Norse gnípa ‘steep rock, overhanging rock’.
Americanized form of German Kneip .
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