When Lucy Stringfellow was born on 15 January 1856, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Stringfellow, was 36 and her mother, Hannah Stringfellow, was 19. She married James Henry Day on 2 November 1874, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1880 and lived in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 2 November 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Draper City Cemetery, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English: occupational name from Middle English string-felagh ‘string-fellow, man who works at a string-hearth’. This was the hearth or furnace at which iron was heated for its second working. A 1547 document from south Yorkshire defines the string-fellow's duties: ‘the stringefelloe wages, for layeinge the stone and breakeinge and feyinge of synders and breakeinge of the blowme and hewinge’. Thornhill and Ecclesfield were two of several iron-working districts in Yorkshire. See also Stringer .
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