Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Andrews was born on 31 August 1819, in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Andrews, was 33 and her mother, Mary Jane Stevens, was 32. She married Joseph Fenn on 7 October 1840, in St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 3 January 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Jane Fenn in household of Joseph Fenn, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Jane Andrews, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Jane Fenn, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
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.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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