Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Bourne was born about 1833, in Rode, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Bourne, was 49 and his mother, Sarah Ann Toop, was 36. He married Mary Sarah Palmer in June 1860, in Beckington with Standerwick, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 25 March 1911, in Beckington with Standerwick, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 79.
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- Charles Bourne in household of James Bourne, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Charles Bourne, "England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957"
- Charles Bourne in household of James Bourne, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
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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.
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from southern Middle English bourne, Old English burna, burne ‘spring, stream’, or a habitational name from a place called with this word, for example Bourn in Cambridgeshire or Bourne in Lincolnshire. In surnames the reference is often to an old stream called burna, surviving as the name of a farm. This word was replaced as the general word for a stream in southern dialects by Old English brōc (see Brook ) and came to be restricted in meaning to a stream flowing only intermittently, especially in winter.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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