When Joseph Robert Watson was born on 25 August 1820, in Chelsea, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Watson, was 34 and his mother, Ann Copperthite, was 11817. He married Maria Sarah Belliston on 6 June 1843, in Battersea, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. He died in July 1863, in Chelsea, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 42.
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Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
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.
Scottish, English, and Irish: patronymic meaning ‘son of Wat’, a pet form of Walter that was particularly common in Scotland and northern England. See Watt .
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