When Alice Ann Wignall was born on 27 May 1877, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Wignall, was 22 and her mother, Sarah Jane Baines, was 19. She died in 1908, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 31.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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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 (Lancashire): habitational name from Wiggenhall (Norfolk), Wiggenholt (Sussex), Wignal, a minor place near Holmes in the parish of Croston (Lancashire). The Norfolk placename derives from the Old English personal name Wicga (genitive Wicgan; see Wigley ) + Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’. The Sussex placename derives from the Old English personal name Wicga (genitive Wicgan) + Old English holt ‘wood, thicket’. The Lancashire placename derives from the Old English personal name Wicga + Old English h(e)alh ‘nook, corner, recess’.
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