When Mary Medora Orton was born on 11 January 1849, in Geneseo, Livingston, New York, United States, her father, Cammus Ramus Orton, was 35 and her mother, Jane Milliman, was 30. She married Albert S. Locke on 28 December 1871, in Lakeville, Livonia, Livingston, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Livingston, New York, United States in 1875. She died on 18 June 1892, in Geneseo, Geneseo, Livingston, New York, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Lakeville, Livonia, Livingston, New York, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Orton in Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, and Westmorland. All those in England share a second element from Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, but the first element in each case is more difficult to determine. Examples in Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire are on the banks of rivers, so these are probably derived from Old English ōfer ‘riverbank’; in other cases it is impossible to distinguish between ofer ‘ridge’ and ufera ‘upper’. Orton in Westmorland is probably formed with the Old Norse byname Orri ‘black-cock’ (the male black grouse). Orton near Fochabers, Scotland, is of uncertain etymology.
Americanized form of Norwegian Årtun: habitational name from the farm name Årtun, found in six places, e.g. in the province of Rogaland, a compound of the genitive case singular of Old Norse á ‘small river’ and tún ‘farm yard (surrounded by buildings)’.
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