A mixed bag of brief snippets from my Gen Timeline
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1882
Only about 5% of the male population left wills in the nineteenth century
and wills written by wives were almost non-existent until the Married
Women's Property Act of 1882 came into the force. Since 1837, all testators
have had to be aged over 21; prior to that, the minimum age was 12 for a
girl and 14 for a boy.
1901
Factory & Workshop Act. Repealed the Factory & Workshop Acts of 1878, 1883,
1891, 1895, and also the Cotton Cloth Factories Acts of 1889 & 1897. The
1901 Act was itself repealed in the Factories Act of 1937.
The 1901 Act said that children under 12 could not be employed in a
factory/workshop unless already so employed. Certificates of fitness for
employment were required which needed evidence of a child's age. This might
be a copy of the birth registration entry, fee 6d.
1908
State retirement pensions were first introduced in the UK in 1908, and
became universal under the National Insurance Act 1946, which introduced
the basic flat-rate pension
1910
From the 1910 Valuation Office Survey [known as the Lloyd George
Domesday]
maps were produced [between 1910 and 1915] for taxation purposes. They
were
adapted from OS maps with plot numbers of each property linked to field
books.
Gareth
Genuki maintainer for Wales, CGN, CMN, & PEM
List Administrator for Dyfed, CGN & PEM.
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