When Robert Earnest Hilton was born on 13 July 1913, in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States, his father, Elmer Valentine Hilton, was 28 and his mother, Ethel Ardella Goss, was 29. He married Bertha Rae Stringham on 9 December 1937, in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 13 December 1982, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States.
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English (Lancashire):
habitational name from any of various places called Hilton (e.g. in Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, North Yorkshire, and Westmorland), most of which derive from Old English hyll ‘hill’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some come from Old English helde ‘slope’ + tūn.
occasionally, as in the case of Ralph filius Hilton (Yorkshire 1219), perhaps from the personal name Hilton, itself a possible form of Norman Hildun, composed of the ancient Germanic elements hild ‘strife, battle’ + hūn ‘bear cub’. Compare Hilt . This English surname is present in Ireland (mainly taken to Ulster in the early 17th century, though recorded earlier in Dublin).
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