Henry was born on 3 July 1830 to John Damerell and Jane (Beer) Damerell in Charleton, Devon, England, and christened there on 18 July 1830. [1][2] John died in 1837, and Jane, unable to provide for ten children still at home (three more were working away or had got married), had to put several of them - including Henry - into Kingsbridge Workhouse, which had only opened three years before.
1830 George IV dies, succeeded by brother, William IV
1830 First passenger steam railway opened in the UK
1831 New London Bridge opened
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
1841 Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
1841 census: age 10, Henry is in Kingsbridge Workhouse [3]
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
1845-1854 Military Service (Royal Navy)[4]
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
1849 Hunt invents the safety pin
1851 Singer invents sewing machine
1851 census: 21 - engine rail driver, living with mother (widow) in Frogmore [5]
1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition
1854 Crimean War
1855 Florence Nightingale went to nurse the injured in the Crimean War
1857 The Indian Mutiny
1857 Divorce Courts created
On 24 June 1857, Henry married Jane Ball in Charleton, Devon, England. [6] Together with Jane's daughter Emma Jane Ball 1850, the couple had six children: Bertha 1857, Clara Ellen 1864, Rhoda Ann 1865, Frederick James Ball 1868, Sarah Caroline 1870 (who preferred to be called Catherine), and Charles Denis 1876.
1858 Rotary washing machine patented
1859 The Origin of Species (Darwin)
1861 Prince Albert dies of typhoid
1861 American Civil War begins
1861 census: 30 - merchant seaman, living at New Bridge, Charleton [7]
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: 40 - mariner, living with wife/children at New Bridge, Charleton [8]
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
1881 census: 50 - marrene [sic] store dealer, living in Charleton [9]
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
1887 Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
1887 Berliner invents the gramophone
1887 Hertz invents radar
1888 Dunlop patents pneumatic tyre
1889 Eiffel Tower built
1889 Cordite invented
1890 London's first electric Underground
1890 Forth railway bridge opens
1891 census: 60 - stoker in steam ship, widower, living in Main Road, Charleton[10]
1892 Electric oven invented
1893 Zip fastener invented
1895 Gillette invents safety razor
1895 Rontgen discovers x-rays
1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
1898 First photograph using artificial light
1899 Johnson patents the bicycle frame
1899 Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner
1899 Second Boer War
1899 Aspirin invented
1900 Zeppelin invented
1901 Queen Victoria dies - Edward VII becomes king
1901 First successful radio transmission
1901 census: 70 - retired steam stoker, living at New Bridge, Charleton [11]
1902 Lie detector invented
1902 Neon light invented
1902 Birth of the teddy bear
1903 Crayons invented
1903 Wright Brothers invent first gas-motor and manned airplane
1904 Tractor invented
1904 Teabags invented
Henry died on 19 February 1904, age 73. [12]
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