When William Openshaw was born on 10 April 1831, in Goodshaw, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Openshaw, was 34 and his mother, Amelia Frith, was 27. He married Ann Harrop on 7 August 1853, in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Hollingworth, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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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.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Openshaw (Lancashire). The placename derives from Old English open ‘open, unenclosed’ + sceaga ‘small wood, copse’.
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