When Edwin Smedley was born in 1875, in Essex, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Smedley, was 49 and his mother, Louisa Bearman, was 39. He lived in Great Bardfield, Essex, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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English (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire): habitational name, mostly from Smithley in Wombwell (Yorkshire) but also from Smedley (Lancashire). The placenames probably mean ‘wood or woodland clearing of the smiths’, from Old English smitha, genitive plural form of smith ‘smith’, + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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