When Milton Weston was born in 1842, in Mentz, Cayuga, New York, United States, his father, Millard David Weston, was 25 and his mother, Urane Ward, was 20. He married Lizzie Mcallister on 12 September 1865. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 22 February 1902, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called Weston, from Old English west ‘west’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
topographic name from Middle English atte west tun(e) ‘at the west farmstead, settlement’ (Old English west + tūn), or from Middle English (bi) weste(n)tune (Old English be westan tūne or be west in tūne), denoting someone who lived either to the west of a settlement or in the western part of a settlement. The latter was a common surname in Sussex.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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