Brief Life History of Penta
Penta Walcott was born in 1797, in Union, Knox, Maine, United States. He married Eliza Clarke Standish about 1826, in Warren, Lincoln, Maine, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Pinty Walcott, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
- Pentey Balcott, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
Spouse and Children
1797– Male
1801–1850 Female
World Events (3)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 3
1803
Age 6
1804 · Whitehead Light
Age 7
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called Walcott, Walcot, or Walcote, for example in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire, all named in Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala) + cot ‘cottage, hut, shelter’ (plural cotu), i.e. ‘the cottage where the (Welsh-speaking) Britons lived’. This name is also frequent in Barbados and Jamaica, when emancipated slaves adopted it from the name of one or other of the sugar plantations owned there by English families called Walcott.
History: This surname was in MA from an early date. William Walcott emigrated from England to Salem, MA, in 1637; John Wolcott (1632–1690) is recorded in Springfield, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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