When Katherine Kilby was born on 22 February 1738, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Christoper Kilby, was 32 and her mother, Sarah Clark, was 29. She died in 1747, in England, United Kingdom, at the age of 9.
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English: habitational name from Kilby in Leicestershire. The placename derives from Old English cild ‘child’ (genitive plural cilda) + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’, with change of initial Ch- to K- due to Scandinavian influence. There may have been some confusion with Kelby .
History: Christopher Kilby (1705–71), merchant and government contractor of the colonial era, was born in Boston, MA, as was his father, John. According to family tradition, his grandfather John was born in 1632 in Hertfordshire, England.
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