When George Ainscough was born on 29 September 1853, in Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Aynscough, was 44 and his mother, Charlotte Ridings, was 33. He lived in Tottington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861.
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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.
The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
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English: (i) locative name apparently from a lost or unidentified place called Ainscough or similar, probably in Lancs. If so, the place-name would have Old Scandinavian skógr ‘wood’ as its second element. (ii) alternatively, a variant of Askew ( compare Ayscough ) with intrusive -n-.
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