Brief Life History of Rachael
Rachael Hunt was born in 1814, in Denby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom as the daughter of Richard Hunt. She married Joseph Mee on 25 October 1837, in St Alkmund's Church, Derby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Derby St Alkmund, Derby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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- Rachell Mee in household of Joseph Mee, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Rachael Hunt, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Rachel Mee in entry for Dinah Mee, "England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918"
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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.
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern): occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English hunte ‘hunter, huntsman’ (Old English hunta). The term was used not only of the hunting on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which in the Middle Ages was a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also to much humbler forms of pursuit such as bird catching and poaching for food. The word seems also to have been used as an Old English personal name and to have survived into the Middle Ages as an occasional personal name. Compare Huntington and Huntley .
Irish: adopted for various Irish surnames containing or thought to contain the Gaelic element fiadhach ‘hunt’; for example Ó Fiaich (see Fee ) and Ó Fiachna (see Fenton ).
Possibly an Americanized form of German Hundt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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