Mary Sturman was born about 1814, in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. She had at least 5 sons and 5 daughters with Abraham Groom - wheelwright. She lived in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 50 years.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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 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.
English: from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Sturmin, probably a diminutive in -in of the Middle English personal name Sturmi, from Middle English stormi ‘stormy’ (Old French estormi), denoting a stormy temperament. Compare Storm .
English: variant of Stearman 1 in which the main vowel of Middle English ster(e)man, stir(e)man has shortened, giving rise in the 17th century to the modern pronunciation variously spelled -er-, -ir-, and -ur-. In some cases the name may arise from the Middle English personal name Stireman, Stereman (Old Norse Stȳreman, originally a nickname from the Old Danish word for a helmsman or skipper); see Stearman 1.
Americanized form of North German Sturmann or Stuhrmann, and of Dutch Stuurman: occupational name for a helmsman, from Middle Low German stūren ‘to steer’ + man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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