When Anne Eastwood was born on 28 March 1816, in Accrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Eastwood, was 36 and her mother, Anne Pilkington, was 33. She married John Pilkington on 9 May 1835, in Accrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Whalley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 12 May 1889, at the age of 73, and was buried in Haslingden, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from any of various places called Eastwood, such as in Keighley, Rotherham, or Todmorden (all Yorkshire), or Eastwood in Nottinghamshire. Most of these placenames come from Old English ēast ‘east’ + wudu ‘wood’, but Eastwood in Nottinghamshire originally had as its final element Old Norse thveit ‘clearing’ (see Thwaites ). Compare Astwood .
English (Devon): from Eastwood in Peters Marland or Inwardleigh (both Devon), named with Middle English bi este wode ‘(place) to the east of the wood’.
Probably also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Oostwoud: habitational name from the village Oostwoud in the province of North Holland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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