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Mary BensteadAge: 691800–1869

Name
Mary Benstead
Married Name
Mary Bridge
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Birth 1800
 

History 1801 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
History 1804 (Age 4)
 

Note: Napoleon declared Emperor.
History 1805 (Age 5)
 

Note: Battle of Trafalgar.
History 1809 (Age 9)
 

Note: Napoleon captures Vienna.
History 1811 (Age 11)
 

Note: Prince of Wales named Regent to act for George III, now insane.<br />Luddite riots in the North and the Midlands. Laborers attack factories and break up the machines which they fear will replace them.
History 1812 (Age 12)
 

Note: Napoleon invades Russia.<br />War of 1812 between England and the United States.
History 1814 (Age 14)
 

Note: Treaty of Ghent ends Anglo-U.S. War.<br />England and allies invade France.<br />Napoleon exiled to Elba.
History 1815 (Age 15)
 

Note: Napoleon escapes Elba, begins the Hundred Days.<br />Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon exiled to St. Helena in the South Atlantic.<br />Corn Laws passed.
History 1819 (Age 19)
 

Note: Peterloo Massacre of Corn Law protestors.
History 1820 (Age 20)
 

Note: George IV succeeds George III on his death
History 1821 (Age 21)
 

Note: Napoleon dies.
History 1829 (Age 29)
 

Note: Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police.
History 1830 (Age 30)
 

Note: George IV dies, his brother William IV succeeds.<br />Manchester - Liverpool Railway (first in England).
History 1832 (Age 32)
 

Note: First Reform Bill: adds 10 pound/year householders to the voting rolls and reapportions Parliamentary representation much more fairly, doing away with most rotten and pocket boroughs. Adds 217,000 voters to an electorate of 435,000.
History 1833 (Age 33)
 

Note: Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.<br />Factory Act.
History 1834 (Age 34)
 

Note: New Poor Law.<br />Houses of Parliament burn down.
MarriageSimon Bridge - View family
1835 (Age 35)
 

History 1837 (Age 37)
 

Note: William IV dies, succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
History 1838 (Age 38)
 

Note: Regular Atlantic steamship service begins.
History 1839 (Age 39)
 

Note: Anti-Corn-Law League founded.
History 1840 (Age 40)
 

Note: Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort.<br />Penny post started.<br />S.F.B. Morse invents the telegraph.<br />Grammar Schools Act.
History 1842 (Age 42)
 

Note: Chartist Riots.<br />Copyright Act.<br />Potato Failure in Europe, starvation in Ireland. Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed.
History 1849 (Age 49)
 

Note: Gold discovered in California and Australia.
History 1850 (Age 50)
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel.
History 1851 (Age 51)
 

Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace).
History 1853 (Age 53)
 

Note: Crimean War.
Death of a husband 1855 (Age 55)
 

husband - Simon Bridge
History 1855 (Age 55)
 

Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls.
History 1857 (Age 57)
 

Note: The Mutiny (India).
History 1858 (Age 58)
 

Note: First Atlantic cable laid.
History 1861 (Age 61)
 

Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War.
History 1862 (Age 62)
 

Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
History 1864 (Age 64)
 

Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
History 1867 (Age 67)
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under the Atlantic.<br />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 (on the date of death)
 

Note: Suez Canal opened.
History 1869 (on the date of death)
 

Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
Death 1869 (Age 69)
 

Family with Simon Bridge - View family
husband
Simon Bridge

Birth 1773 33 33  

Death 1855 (Age 82)  

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27 years
herself
Mary Benstead

Birth 1800  

Death 1869 (Age 69)  

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Marriage: 1835
Simon Bridge + Ann Collier - View family
husband
Simon Bridge

Birth 1773 33 33  

Death 1855 (Age 82)  

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husband's wife
Ann Collier

Death Yes  

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Marriage: 1798
#1 step-son
James Bridge

Birth 1798 25  

Death 18 November 1846 (Age 48)  

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