When Mary Ann Cox was born on 5 May 1825, in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Beasley, was 30 and her mother, Eleanor Cox, was 35. She married Abraham Halladay on 27 January 1845, in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. She died on 6 December 1895, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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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.
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English: variant of Cocke and Cook , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish (Ulster): mistranslation of Mac Con Coille (‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’), as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dutch and Flemish: genitivized patronymic from the personal name Cock, a vernacular short form of Cornelius .
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