When Ruth Wharton was born on 8 January 1895, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States, her father, Elijah Wharton, was 51 and her mother, Etha Delinda Stewart, was 43. She married Thomas William Dyball on 27 January 1911, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Harrison, Texas, United States in 1935 and Sausalito Judicial Township, Marin, California, United States in 1940. She died on 26 May 1968, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, 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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