When Mary Ann Beard was born on 5 January 1826, in Whitbourne, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Beard Jr., was 28 and her mother, Anne Freeman, was 24. She married George Mason on 18 February 1849, in Atlantic Ocean. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cradley, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. She died on 31 May 1902, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English:
nickname for a bearded man (from Middle English berd, Old English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century, the crucial period for surname formation. There is a placename and other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, in particular German Barth 1.
habitational name from a place called Beard in Derbyshire (now represented by Beard Hall and Beardwood Farms in New Mills parish), which derives its name by dissimilation from Old English brerd ‘rim, bank’.
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