When William Hepworth was born in January 1562, in Kirkburton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Hepworth, was 29 and his mother, Lady Elizabeth Alice Wood, was 30. He married Jane Thewles on 21 June 1597.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Hepworth (Yorkshire) or, less likely, from the place so named in Suffolk. The Yorkshire placename derives from an Old English personal name Heppa + Old English worth ‘enclosure’, while the Suffolk placename comes from Old English hēope ‘rose hip’ or hēopa ‘dog rose, bramble’ + worth.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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