When Elizabeth Ann Sudgen was born in 1846, in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joshua Sugden, was 21 and her mother, Maria, was 25. She had at least 2 sons and 4 daughters with Charles Pickles. She lived in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Halifax St James, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. She died on 15 June 1914, in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 68, and was buried in Pellon, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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 Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English (West Yorkshire and Lancashire):
habitational name principally from Sugden in Haworth or Sugden in Bingley (both Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English sugga ‘swamp, marsh, bog’ + denu ‘valley’.
occasionally a habitational name from Sugdon in Rodington (Shropshire), probably from Old English sugga ‘swamp, marsh, bog’ + dūn ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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