When Samuel Hilton was born on 25 March 1797, in Chemung, Montgomery, New York, United States, his father, David Warren Hilton, was 41 and his mother, Mary Ann Hammond, was 35. He married Sarah Hoyt Morrill on 27 March 1826, in Ogden, Monroe, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Avon Township, Oakland, Michigan, United States in 1850. He died on 10 July 1870, in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, United States.
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English (Lancashire):
habitational name from any of various places called Hilton (e.g. in Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, North Yorkshire, and Westmorland), most of which derive from Old English hyll ‘hill’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some come from Old English helde ‘slope’ + tūn.
occasionally, as in the case of Ralph filius Hilton (Yorkshire 1219), perhaps from the personal name Hilton, itself a possible form of Norman Hildun, composed of the ancient Germanic elements hild ‘strife, battle’ + hūn ‘bear cub’. Compare Hilt . This English surname is present in Ireland (mainly taken to Ulster in the early 17th century, though recorded earlier in Dublin).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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