When George Wilcox Burridge was born on 17 January 1813, in Coxley, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Burridge, was 30 and his mother, Anne Wilcox, was 32. He married Hannah Jane Shaw on 18 November 1847, in Ayton, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1855. He died on 26 September 1891, in St John, Onaqui, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in St John, Onaqui, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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.
English: variant of Burrage .
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