When Juanita Mildred Billington was born on 7 October 1911, in Kidder, North Dakota, United States, her father, Nathaniel Lee Billington, was 40 and her mother, Emma Rosella Stott, was 41. She married Harold Ingvald Odegaard about 1931, in Kidder, North Dakota, United States. She lived in Ohio Township, Franklin, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Tower City, Barnes, North Dakota, United States in 1940. She died on 9 August 1988, in Fargo, Cass, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Highland Home Cemetery, Jamestown Junction, Stutsman, North Dakota, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of the three places called Billington, in Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Bedfordshire. The first of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna ‘sword-shaped hill’ (see Bill 2); the second is in Domesday Book as Belintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of Billa’; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as Billendon, from an Old English personal name Billa + dūn ‘hill’. The place in Lancashire is the most likely source of the surname.
History: John Billington (1580–1630), from Spalding, Lincolnshire, was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 and an early settler in Plymouth Colony. Governor Bradford called him ‘the profanest’ of the settlers; eventually he was hanged for murder. His son Francis married and had children.
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