When Martha Burton was born in 1822, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Burton, was 33 and her mother, Mary Jepson, was 33. She married John Shaw on 21 December 1845, in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Pleasley Hill, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. She died in January 1895, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
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English: habitational name from a placename that is very common in central and northern England. The derivation in most cases is from Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
French (northeastern): regional variant of Berton .
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