When Eliza Shefford was born in 1845, in Lambeth, Surrey, England, her father, William Charles Shefford, was 27 and her mother, Helen Catherine Hogg, was 25. She lived in Lambeth, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1851.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
English: locative name from East or Great Shefford (Berks), recorded as Siford in 1086 and Sifford in 1204, or from Shefford (Beds).
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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