When Benjamin Barrett was born in February 1854, in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Barrett, was 39 and his mother, Elizabeth Loveridge, was 25. He lived in Marston St Lawrence, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom for about 50 years. He died on 5 September 1898, at the age of 44.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
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