When Ernest Rushton was born about March 1887, in Newton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Rushton, was 46 and his mother, Elizabeth Cowking, was 38. He died in June 1961, in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.
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English: habitational name from Rishton (Lancashire) and Rushton (Staffordshire), and perhaps also from Rushton (Cheshire, Northamptonshire), Rushton in East Stoke (Dorset), and Rhiston (Shropshire). The placenames derive from Old English risc ‘rush’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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