When Rebecca Garfield was born on 20 June 1830, in Crowland, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Oliver Garfield, was 29 and her mother, Charlotte Hitchbourne, was 28. She married Francis McCleve on 4 January 1858, in Little Gonerby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Southampton St Mary, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851.
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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.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English (Midlands): topographic name from Middle English gor(e), gar(e) ‘triangular piece’ + feld ‘open country, field’ (Old English gār + feld), for someone who lived by a triangular piece of land.
English: alternatively, sometimes perhaps a variant of Carville (a name of Norman origin), with excrescent final -d.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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