When Jacob Duffin was born on 14 March 1832, in East Crompton, Lancashire, England, his father, James Duffin Jr, was 57 and his mother, Margaret Gledhill, was 35. He lived in Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 21 June 1862, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, 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.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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English (Hampshire): possibly from the Old Norse personal name Dufan, a loan from Old Irish Dubán, derived from the ancestor of Gaelic dubh ‘dark’.
Irish (Antrim): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duibhfinn, ‘descendant of Dubhfionn’, a personal name composed of dubh ‘dark’ + fionn ‘fair’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesJames H. Fielding was buried in 1878 in the SLC Cemetery next to his daughter Mary's (K2WZ-HDP) brother in-law Jacob Duffin (KWJC-HL4), who also does not have a headstone. The Duffin siblings were pa …
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