When Mary Ann Knight was born in 1821, in Lubenham, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Jordan Knight, was 29 and her mother, Jane Berry, was 18. She married Eli Rimington in 1846, in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died about November 1907, in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 86.
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Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
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.
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.
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
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