Brief Life History of Dorothy
When Dorothy Pennington was born in 1829, in Dalton, Lancashire, England, her father, Thomas Pennington, was 29 and her mother, Hannah Gaitskell, was 28. She married John Redhead on 3 June 1856, in Holy Trinity Church, Ulverston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Ulverston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 30 years. She died in 1895, in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, at the age of 66.
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- Dorathy Penington in household of Thomas Penington, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Dorothy Pennington, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Dorothy Peuningron, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
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.
1850 · Industrial Revolution in Lancashire
When the Industrial Revolution hit Lancashire, cotton mills started spring up everywhere. This helped the cotton industry to start booming even moreso in Lancashire.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire and Cumbria):
habitational name from Pennington in Furness (Lancashire), which derives from Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, or from Pennington in Leigh (Lancashire), which probably derives from the Old English personal name Pinna + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + Old English tūn.
habitational name from Pennington (Hampshire), or from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hampshire); see Penton . All have the same etymology as Pennington in Furness; see 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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