When Ethel Veronica Eastham was born on 16 October 1914, in Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Eastham, was 22 and her mother, Ann Swarbrick Holmes, was 23. She married Albert Stanley Wood Bailey in September 1934, in Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died in 2003, in her hometown, at the age of 89.
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WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from any of various places so named from Old English ēast ‘east’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow, enclosure’. The name most often arises from Eastham (Cheshire), but sometimes from a place of the same name in Somerset or Worcestershire.
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