When Eliza Burgess was born on 8 December 1827, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Burgess, was 27 and her mother, Betty Pimlott, was 23. She married Brigham Young on 3 October 1852, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1915. She died on 20 August 1915, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
When the Industrial Revolution hit Lancashire, cotton mills started spring up everywhere. This helped the cotton industry to start booming even moreso in Lancashire.
English: status name from Middle English burge(i)s, burgis, borgeis ‘inhabitant of a borough’ (strictly one possessing full municipal rights), ‘freeman of a borough’. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger .
Americanized form of French Bourgeois .
History: Thomas Burgess came from England to MA c. 1630 and eventually settled in Sandwich, MA.
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