When Agnes Wharfe was born in 1749, in Burnsall, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Benjamin Wharfe, was 42 and her mother, Isabell Proctor, was 40. She married John Thomas Beck on 10 May 1781, in Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 11 March 1814, in Addingham, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 65, and was buried in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: (i) locative name from Wharfe in Austwick (WR Yorks). (ii) locative name occasionally from Middle English w(h)arf ‘wharf, quay, landing-place’, as the 1320 example shows; it probably denoted someone who worked at a wharf. However, there is little medieval evidence for this name and the post-medieval bearers cited below in counties outside WR Yorks may belong with (i) and descend from migrant Yorkshiremen.
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