When Eliza Pike was born in 1860, in Durrington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Pike, was 34 and her mother, Ann Foyle, was 31. She married Henry Peter Dorey in October 1879, in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in New Alresford, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years and Alresford, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died on 19 August 1944, in Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 84.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
English: nickname, perhaps for a fisherman whose physique resembled that of a pike. One Londoner so named in 1292 was a fishmonger.
English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool, perhaps a laborer or military pikeman, from Middle English pike ‘pike, pickaxe, pitchfork’. Compare Pick .
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pic (Old English Pica, Old Norse Pík), of uncertain origin but perhaps from one of the words mentioned above.
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