Brief Life History of William
When William Stocks was born on 14 June 1821, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Stocks, was 53 and his mother, Ann Storeh or Storch, was 44. He married Sarah Smith about 1841. He died in 1857, in his hometown, at the age of 36.
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- Willm. Stocks, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Legacy NFS Source: William - male
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1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
Name Meaning
German: variant of Stock .
English (Yorkshire): variant of Stock with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. In the plural form, the surname may also be topographic, for someone who lived near tree stumps, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Stocks in Thurstonland (Yorkshire). It may also denote someone who lived by, or operated, the obsolete instrument of punishment known as the stocks (Middle English stokkes) owing to its construction from two wooden planks set edgewise one over the other.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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