Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Fielding was born in May 1834, in Shaw and Crompton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Hardy Fielding, was 37 and her mother, Ann Henthorn, was 34. She married William Adam Empey on 31 March 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and East Crompton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died from June 1854 to October 1854.
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- Sarah Fielding in household of James Fielding, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Fielding - birth: May 1834; Shaw, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
- Sarah Fielding - Pioneer Overland Travel
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1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
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.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1850 · Industrial Revolution in Lancashire
When the Industrial Revolution hit Lancashire, cotton mills started spring up everywhere. This helped the cotton industry to start booming even moreso in Lancashire.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Fielden .
English: occasionally from a Middle English survival of Old English felding ‘dweller in the field(s), open country’.
Irish: possibly a variant of McField (see McPhail ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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