When Ellen Morris was born on 12 April 1832, in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Morris, was 42 and her mother, Mary Norris, was 36. She married James Athay on 10 May 1857, in Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Bradford, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Stepney, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 30 November 1893, in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, 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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English and Scottish: from Maurice, an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans. It is derived from Latin Mauritius, a derivative of Maurus (see Moore ). This was the name of several early Christian saints. In some cases it may be a nickname of the same derivation for someone with a swarthy complexion.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muirghis, a variant of Ó Muirgheasa (see Morrissey ).
Welsh: Anglicized form of the personal name Meurig (from Latin Mauritius), which was gradually superseded in Wales by Morus, Morys, a derivative of the Anglo-Norman French form of the name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesThis is an effort at transcription of the attached page of a letter written December 7, 1893, by Sarah Elizabeth Clifton Shepherd to her Husband, Lorenzo Tracey Shepherd who was on a mission in Wales …
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