When Lucy Julia Court was born in 1857, in Badlesmere, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Court, was 34 and her mother, Charlotte Twyman, was 35. She married Albert Raines in November 1877, in Badlesmere, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Chatham, Kent, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Rochester St Margaret, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
English: topographic or occupational name from Middle English curt, court ‘large house’ (a word of the same ultimately Latin origin as 2 below), denoting someone who lived or worked in a manor house or castle, a courtly retainer.
French: topographic name from Old French co(u)rt ‘court, farmyard’ (from Latin cohors, cors, genitive cohortis, cortis ‘court, farmyard, enclosure’).
English and French: nickname for a physically small man, or ironically for a large man, from the adjective Middle English curt, Old French co(u)rt ‘short, small’ (from Latin curtus ‘curtailed, truncated, cut short, broken off’). Compare French Lecourt .
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