When Jeffry Lancaster was born in 1835, in Kendal, Westmorland, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Geoffrey Lancaster, was 46 and his mother, Anna Maria Strong, was 42. He married Agnes Lupton in 1865, in Salford, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Salford, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1871.
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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.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
English: habitational name from Lancaster in northwestern England, which is recorded as Loncastre in 1086. The place takes its name from the river Lune + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’ (from Latin castra ‘legionary camp’). The river name is probably British, perhaps related to Gaelic slán ‘healthy’, ‘salubrious’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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