When Samuel Disney was born in 1824, in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Disney, was 26 and his mother, Mary Reynolds, was 30. He married Emily Dring on 6 May 1855, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters.
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Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name with fused French preposition d(e), for someone from Isigny in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Isinius (a Latinized form of Gaulish Isina) + the locative suffix -acum.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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