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unnamed son Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

1879–1879

Born
13 Oct 1879, Eastwell Park
Country of birth
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, today United Kingdom
Died
13 Oct 1879, Eastwell Park
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A life in time

  1. Born · Eastwell Park

    Birth, Eastwell Park

  2. Died · Eastwell Park

    Death, Eastwell Park

What was it like?

The world around Eastwell Park, 1879: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

unnamed was born around the same time as John James Rickard Macleod, John Boyd Orr, and Guillaume Apollinaire.

Known for

In their life

  • died on day of birth
Born around the same time

  • John James Rickard Macleod

    1876 · Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin

  • John Boyd Orr

    1880 · Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (1880-1971)

  • Guillaume Apollinaire

    1880 · French poet (1880–1918)

  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

    1876 · Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement (1876-1944)

  • Pau Casals

    1876 · Spanish cellist, conductor and composer (1876–1973)

  • Hermann Friese

    1880 · German-Brazilian athlete (1882-1945)

Fashion

Everyday Clothing for Women

Women typically wore a shift, a petticoat, and a gown with detachable sleeves, while an apron was essential to protect their clothes during daily chores.

Sunday Best as a Status Symbol

Ordinary working-class men and women maintained a Sunday best outfit, often a three-piece suit for men, to symbolize respectability and celebrate the weekly day of rest.

Music

Paying for Dance at Festivals

At late nineteenth-century festivals, musicians often used a dancing booth with a box for money, where dancers would pay a fee to participate in the festivities. Collecting these fees became more difficult when round dances and waltzes replaced older country dances.

Around 1850–1874

Collecting Coins for Dance Music

At platform dances, musicians sometimes used a portable dancing booth with a box placed out front to collect coins from each dancer. This ensured payment for players when the older custom of paying during long-wise country dances became difficult to manage.

Getting around
Around 1872–1872

Rail travel speed in 1872

In 1872, a 220-mile rail journey from Manchester to Scotland took over 9.5 hours at an average speed of 23 miles per hour, which was still twice as fast as the quickest coaches.

Dramatic increases in travel speed by rail

Rail travel speeds significantly outperformed earlier coaches, with journeys that took 20 hours by stagecoach in 1830 taking only five hours by train by the early 20th century. For example, in 1872, a 220-mile trip to Scotland via train and carriage took over 9.5 hours, averaging about 23 miles per hour.

Daily life

Compulsory education began in 1880

Compulsory school attendance was established in 1880 for children aged five to ten, helping to increase literacy rates significantly.

Lighting was primarily gas or oil

Most homes relied on gas lamps, oil lamps, or candles for light, as electricity remained a rare luxury for most families during this period.

Food

Children's daily lunch costs

In London, working children often bought a simple lunch at a cook-shop for two pence, typically spending a penny on pudding and a halfpenny on potatoes. If they spent the full twopence, they were permitted to have a little gravy or fat added to their meal.

High beer consumption

Beer was the most popular drink for adults, with an average annual consumption of 32.5 gallons per person by 1900. Some working-class families in London drank nearly five pints of beer per week.

Prices and wages

Cost of a pair of boots

A pair of workingman’s boots cost approximately 1 shilling and 3 pence to 2 shillings and 1 penny, which was often equivalent to a full day's wage for some workers.

Worker annual earnings in the late 1800s

A skilled worker like a carpenter or mason typically earned between £75 and £100 per year, while a farm laborer earned about £25.

Work

Common Victorian Occupations

Domestic service was the largest employer of women, while coal mining and agricultural labor were the most common jobs for the general working population.

Factory Wages and Inequality

Men in factories typically earned 15 shillings per week, while women and children were paid significantly less for their labor.

During their lifetime

  1. 1879

    1879 Tay Bridge collapses killing 75 passengers

    In 1879, the two-mile Tay Bridge collapsed during a storm, killing 75 passengers in Britain's largest engineering disaster.

Family

Parents

Ancestors and children

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Four generations back to the right, the children to the left. The number beside a child counts the generations of descendants known after them.