Samuel Farley (bef. 1822 - 1886)

Born before 10 Mar 1822 in Zeal Monachorum, Devon, England

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Brooke) Farley — married 29 Aug 1847 in Coldridge, Devon, England

Descendants

Died 1886 after age 63 in St Germans Registration District, Cornwall, England

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Biography

Samuel was born about 1821 to John Farley and Elizabeth (Downe) Farley and christened on 10 March 1822 in Zeal Monachorum, Devon, England.^[1] Samuel came from North Tawton, where the name 'Farley' is plentiful (there is a crossroads outside North Tawton called "Farley's Grave").
1824 Severe storms on coasts of Devon and Cornwall
1824 Faraday invents first toy balloon
1825 Trade unions legalised
1828 Duke of Wellington becomes British Prime Minister
1829 Metropolitan Police Force set up by Robert Peel
1829 Stephenson's Rocket
1830 First passenger steam railway opened in the UK
1832 Cholera in Ottery St Mary
1833 Factory Act forbade the employment of children under 9 years old
1836 Births must be registered (but not mandatory until 1875)
1836 First Potato Famine in Ireland (lasts until 1842)
1836 Samuel Colt invents the first revolver
1837 Invention of the postage stamp
1837 Morse invents the telegraph
1837 Kingsbridge Union workhouse opened
1830 George IV dies, succeeded by brother, William IV
1830 First passenger steam railway opened in the UK
1831 New London Bridge opened
1832 Cholera in Ottery St Mary
1833 Factory Act forbade the employment of children under 9 years old
1833 Abolition of slavery in British Empire
1834 Workhouses established
1836 Births must be registered (but not mandatory until 1875)
1836 First Potato Famine in Ireland (lasts until 1842)
1836 Samuel Colt invents the first revolver
1837 Invention of the postage stamp
1837 Morse invents the telegraph
1837 Kingsbridge Union workhouse opened
1837 William IV dies, accession to throne of Queen Victoria
1838 Charles Dickens wrote "Oliver Twist"
1839 Chartist Riots
1839 Invention of daguerrotype photography
1840 Penny Post introduced
The 1841 census sees Samuel as an agricultural apprentice at a farm in nearby Hulse.^[2]
1841 Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
1844 Railway comes to Devon
1844 Outdoor Relief Prohibition Order - parish relief had to be in a workhouse
1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine kills more than a million people
1845 Sewing machine invented
1846 Anaesthetic used for the first time in England
1847 Ten Hours Act shortens factory work day to ten hours for women and children
1847 Antiseptics invented

On 29 August 1847, Samuel married Jane Brooke in Coldridge, Devon, England, ^[3] and together the couple had eleven children: John 1848, George 1850, Elizabeth 1853, Fanny 1855, Samuel 1857, Mary Jane 1859, William 1861, Robert 1864, Albert 1866, Susan 1868, and Joseph 1871.

1848 Cholera in Ottery St Mary
1849 Hunt invents the safety pin
1851 Singer invents sewing machine
1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition
1854 Crimean War
1855 Florence Nightingale went to nurse the injured in the Crimean War

Only the first four children were born in North Tawton, the rest in Millbrook, Cornwall, where the family must have moved between 1855, when Fanny was born in North Tawton, and 1857, when Samuel was born in Cornwall. (Actually, he was born in Maker, which is one of those towns which is located either in Devon or in Cornwall, according to the whim of the current government.)

1857 The Indian Mutiny
1857 Divorce Courts created
1858 Rotary washing machine patented
1859 The Origin of Species (Darwin)
1861 Prince Albert dies of typhoid
1861 American Civil War begins
1862 Gatling patents the machine gun
1865 Slavery abolished in USA
1866 Nobel invents dynamite
1866 Enclosures Act
1866 South Devon Railway Co formed
1868 Traffic lights invented
1868 Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
1868 Small earthquake felt in Ottery St Mary
1870 Primary education becomes compulsory
1871 Census: age 47, ag lab, living with wife/children in Maker^[4]
1871 Electric telegraph opened at Ottery St Mary
1872 17 March - first horse-drawn tram in Plymouth
1873 The typewriter was invented
1873 Joseph Gliddon invents barbed wire
1874 Factory Act introduced
1874 Disraeli becomes Prime Minister for the second time
1875 Submarine invented
1875 Electric lighting introduced to Britain
1876 Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first message by telephone
1876 Edison invents the phonograph
1877 Boer Wars
1878 Edison invents electric lamp
1880 Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds
Samuel and family appear in the 1881 UK census living at West Street in Maker, Cornwall.^[5]
1884 Charles Parson patents the steam turbine
1884 Carl Benz builds single-cylinder motor car
1886 Gottleib Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle
1886 Gladstone resigns as British Prime Minister

Samuel died on 29 May 1886 and is registered in the St Germans registration district (which covers Maker) in the June quarter of that year, age 63.^[6] His death certificate shows that the cause of death was pneumonia for one week, followed by a coma lasting six hours.

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Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N568-1YQ : 30 December 2014), Samuel Farley, Samuel Farley; citing ZEAL MONACHORUM,DEVON,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 0916962, 0917561, 0917561-0917562, 917562.
2. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQTR-NKM : 13 December 2017), Samuel Farley in household of William Browning, Tedburn St Mary, Devon, England; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
3. ↑ UK marriage certificate held by Ros Haywood
4. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VFJ7-B5P : 11 December 2017), Samuel Farley, 1871.
5. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27H-6M3D : 11 December 2017), Samuel Farley, Maker, Cornwall, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 26, Piece/Folio 2279/16, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,192.
6. ↑ UK death registration: St Germans, Volume 5c, Page 29, June quarter 1886

Acknowledgments

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• Entered by Ros Haywood, May 28, 2011

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