When Richard Poulton was born on 21 January 1826, in Sedgley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Poulton, was 31 and his mother, Margaret Hand, was 28. He married Jane Harris on 18 September 1848, in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Church Bridge, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. He died in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and Lancashire, so named from Old English pōl ‘pool’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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