Brief Life History of John
When John Giles was born in 1826, in Beverston, Gloucestershire, England, his father, William Giles, was 38 and his mother, Catherine Fry, was 40. He married Harriet Charles on 4 December 1848, in Beverston, Gloucestershire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in St Thomas in the Moors, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871.
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- John Giles, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Marriage Record for John Giles & Harriet Charles
- John Giles in entry for Clara Giles, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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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.
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, Middle English Giles or Gile, a borrowing from Old French Gil(l)e(s). This is from Latin Aegidius and this presumably from Greek aigidion ‘kid, young goat’ (alternatively, it could be a Late Latin formation from the Latin personal name Eggius + the suffix -idius). The personal name was widely used in France and the Low Countries, partly through veneration of Saint Gilles de Provence, supposedly a hermit of the 7th century near Arles; he was patron saint of cripples, hence the dedication of Saint Giles Cripplegate in London, though the personal name itself was less common in England than elsewhere in Europe. See also Gilles .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name based on glas ‘green, blue, gray’.
French: variant of Gilles , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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