When Annie Idella Wharton was born on 24 November 1886, in Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Hanford Warren Wharton, was 19 and her mother, Mary Eliza Butterfield, was 18. She married John Hersom Wilson on 28 July 1909, in Mars Hill, Aroostook, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 29 May 1971, in Mars Hill, Aroostook, Maine, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Kings Grove Cemetery, Mars Hill, Aroostook, Maine, United States.
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English:
habitational name from any of various places called Wharton, in Westmorland, Cheshire, and Lincolnshire, or from Warton in Lancashire, Northumberland, and Warwickshire. The Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Northumberland placenames probably derive from Old English weard ‘watch’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Cheshire and Warwickshire placenames derive from Old English wæfre ‘swamp, marshy ground’ + tūn. The Westmorland placename may derive from Old English hwearf ‘embankment, shore, wharf’ + tūn.
perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Wiverton in Nottinghamshire, derived from the Old English personal name Wīgfrith + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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