When Ann Preston was born in 1725, in Maltby by Yarm, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Preston, was 29 and her mother, Jane Bennison, was 31. She married Benjamin Ord in 1750. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died after 6 June 1789, in Seamer, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 8274, and was buried in Sedgefield, Durham, England, United Kingdom.
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English:
habitational name from one of the many places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
occasionally from Middle English prest + son ‘son of the priest’. Priests were forbidden marriage but many produced illegitimate offspring.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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