Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Prestwich was born on 3 February 1834, in Prestwich, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Prestwich, was 28 and her mother, Cicely Hampson, was 24. She died in February 1850, in Prestwich, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 16, and was buried in Stand, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Elizabeth Prestwich, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Elizabeth Prestwich, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"
- Elizabeth Prestwich, "England, Manchester, Parish Registers, 1603-1910"
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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.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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 (Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), so called from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + wīc ‘outlying settlement’, or from other places with the same derivation. Variants such as Prestidge, Prestage, etc., parallel the local pronunciation of the Lancashire name. Compare Preston .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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