When Elizabeth Ridings was born in 1856, in Halliwell St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Washington Ridings, was 32 and her mother, Mary Mayoh, was 32. She married Caleb Edward Ashworth on 8 December 1887, in Halliwell, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Halliwell, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years.
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The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
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The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
English (Lancashire): variant of Riding with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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