Mary Ann Crosby was born in 1824, in Great Oakley, Essex, England, United Kingdom as the daughter of James Crosby and Sarah Sawyer. She married James Tillett on 8 March 1845, in Little Clacton, Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Beaumont with Moze, Essex, England, United Kingdom in 1881. She died on 29 September 1909, in Great Oakley, Essex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 85.
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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.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + bȳ ‘farm, settlement’ in Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire.
Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen ).
History: The surname of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix: crosán means ‘bard’ or ‘satirist’. Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin took the Anglicized name Patrick Crosbie c. 1583.
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