When Ann Howarth was born in 1828, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Howarth, was 25 and her mother, Ellen Bullough Monks, was 18. She married Peter Bowden on 20 September 1852, in St Peter's Church, Bolton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Lostock, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Chew Moor, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. She died in January 1876, at the age of 48.
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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.
The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Howarth in Rochdale (Lancashire), possibly from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + worth ‘enclosure’. The name may have been confused with Haworth .
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