Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Gillions was born on 22 March 1832, in Northill, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Guillians, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Saxton, was 33. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1854 and lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 24 September 1854, in Wyoming, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in Wyoming, United States.
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- Sarah Gillions in household of William Gillions, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Sarah Gillions, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Sarah Gillions, "England, Bedfordshire Parish Registers, 1538-1983"
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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.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Gillian with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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Deaths of William Guillians and Two of his Daughters while Immigrating to Utah
William was the 7th of William and Bathsheba's children. He did not join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but four of his children did. His wife, Elizabeth (nee Sexton), died in 1844 …
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