Matilda Firth1840–?
- Name
- Matilda Firth
- Given names
- Matilda
- Surname
- Firth
| Birth | 8 June 1840 40 36 Little Preston, Yorkshire, England Note: Born at 12 midnight |
| Baptism | 26 July 1840 (Age 48 days) Kippax St Marys, Yorkshire, England |
| History | 1840 Note: Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort.Penny post started.S.F.B. Morse invents the telegraph.Grammar Schools Act. |
| History | 1842 (Age 18 months) Note: Chartist Riots.Copyright Act.Potato Failure in Europe, starvation in Ireland. Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed. |
| Birth of a brother | 17 December 1844 (Age 4) Little Preston, Yorkshire, England
younger brother -
John Firth
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| Baptism of a brother | 26 January 1845 (Age 4) Kippax St Marys, Yorkshire, England
younger brother -
John Firth
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| History | 1849 (Age 8) Note: Gold discovered in California and Australia. |
| History | 1850 (Age 9) Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel. |
| History | 1851 (Age 10) Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace). |
| History | 1853 (Age 12) Note: Crimean War. |
| History | 1855 (Age 14) Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls. |
| History | 1857 (Age 16) Note: The Mutiny (India). |
| History | 1858 (Age 17) Note: First Atlantic cable laid. |
| Misc | married Joseph Blackburn (born 1837) between 1861 and 1863 (Age 20) |
| History | 1861 (Age 20) Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.American Civil War. |
| History | 1862 (Age 21) Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier. |
| History | 1864 (Age 23) Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross. |
| History | 1867 (Age 26) Note: Telegraph cable laid under the Atlantic.Second Reform Bill: enfranchises many workingmen, adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales. (Disraeli's legislation) |
| History | 1869 (Age 28) Note: Suez Canal opened. |
| History | 1869 (Age 28) Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S. |
| History | 1870 (Age 29) Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.Franco-Prussian War. |
| History | 1871 (Age 30) Note: Trade unions legalised.Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.Germany unified. |
| Death of a father | 23 February 1876 (Age 35)
father -
John Firth
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| History | 1876 (Age 35) Note: Victoria named Empress of India.Edison invents the phonograph.Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain. |
| History | 1877 (Age 36) Note: Transvaal annexed. |
| History | 1879 (Age 38) Note: Zulu war. |
| History | 1880 (Age 39) Note: War with Transvaal. |
| Residence | with Joseph & their family 1881 (Age 40) Preston, Yorkshire, England Address: Wileys Old Farm |
| History | 1882 (Age 41) Note: Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings. |
| History | 1883 (Age 42) Note: Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan. |
| History | 1884 (Age 43) Note: Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers, electorate tripled. |
| History | 1885 (Age 44) Note: Fall of Khartoum. |
| History | 1886 (Age 45) Note: First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected. |
| History | 1887 (Age 46) Note: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. |
| Death of a mother | 29 December 1888 (Age 48)
mother -
Charlotte Gummersall
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| History | 1889 (Age 48) Note: London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour. |
| History | 1897 (Age 56) Note: Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. |
| History | 1898 (Age 57) Note: Spanish-American War. |
| History | 1899 (Age 58) Note: Boer war. |
| History | 1901 (Age 60) Note: Victoria dies, Edward Prince of Wales succeeds. |
| History | 1903 (Age 62) Note: U.S. acquires Canal Zone from Panama. |
| History | 1904 (Age 63) Note: Entente Cordiale (England and France). |
| History | 1905 (Age 64) Note: Revolution in Russia. |
| History | 1914 (Age 73) Note: The Great War (World War I). |
| History | 1916 (Age 75) Note: Easter Rising in Dublin. |
| History | 1917 (Age 76) Note: Russian Revolution. |
| History | 1918 (Age 77) Note: All men over 21 and women over thirty enfranchised. |
| History | 1922 (Age 81) Note: Irish Free State established. |
| History | 1928 (Age 87) Note: Equal Franchise Act grants right to vote to women over 21 (as well as men). |
| History | 1936 (Age 95) Note: Spanish Civil War. |
| History | 7 July 1937 (Age 97) Note: The Japanese invasion of China (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War). |
| History | 1938 (Age 97) Note: Chamberlain cedes Czech territory to Hitler at Munich. |
| History | 1 September 1939 (Age 99) Note: The German invasion of Poland. |
| History | 3 September 1939 (Age 99) Note: France and Britain declared war on Germany . |
| History | 10 June 1940 (Age 100) Note: Italy declares war on Britain and France. |
| History | 22 June 1941 (Age 101) Note: German attack on the USSR. |
| History | 7 December 1941 (Age 101) Note: Japan attacks America without any declaration of war (Pearl Harbour). |
| History | 8 December 1941 (Age 101) Note: America declares war on Japan. |
| History | 11 December 1941 (Age 101) Note: Germany and Italy declare war on America. |
| History | 8 September 1943 (Age 103) Note: Italy surrenders. |
| History | 13 October 1943 (Age 103) Note: Italy declares war on Germany. |
| History | 19 April 1945 (Age 104) Note: German forces in Italy surrender. |
| History | 8 May 1945 (Age 104) Note: Germany surrenders (VE Day, Victory in Europe Day). |
| History | 2 September 1945 (Age 105) Note: Japan surrenders (VJ Day, Victory over Japan Day). |
| Death | Yes |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
John Firth
Birth 1800 Glasshoughton, Yorkshire, England Death 23 February 1876 (Age 76) Loading...
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4 years mother |
Charlotte Gummersall
Birth 3 July 1803 23 23 Great Preston, Yorkshire, England Death 29 December 1888 (Age 85) Loading...
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Marriage: 21 January 1825 — Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
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5 months #1 elder sister |
Rebecca Firth
Birth before 26 June 1825 25 21 Kippax St Marys, Yorkshire, England Death Yes Loading...
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18 months #2 elder brother |
George Firth
Birth 1827 27 23 Death Yes Loading...
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4 years #3 elder brother |
William Firth
Birth 1831 31 27 Death Yes Loading...
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3 years #4 elder brother |
Thomas Firth
Birth 1834 34 30 Little Preston, Yorkshire, England Death 30 July 1910 (Age 76) Main Methley, Yorkshire, England Loading...
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3 years #5 elder brother |
Eli Firth
Birth 1837 37 33 Great Preston, Yorkshire, England Death 12 March 1904 (Age 67) Great Preston, Yorkshire, England Loading...
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3 years #6 herself |
Matilda Firth
Birth 8 June 1840 40 36 Little Preston, Yorkshire, England Death Yes Loading...
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5 years #7 younger brother |
John Firth
Birth 17 December 1844 44 41 Little Preston, Yorkshire, England Death 28 May 1880 (Age 35) Loading...
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