When Mary Todd Morton was born in 1766, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, John Morton, was 41 and her mother, Mary Todd Sketchley, was 37. She married John Blackburn on 17 September 1788, in York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1844, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1771: Bedford, New Jersey Colony, British Colonial Amerida 1776: Bedford, New Jersey, United States
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English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named with Old English mōr ‘moor’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. There has probably been some confusion with Morten , and perhaps also with Murton . This English name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.
American shortened and altered form of Swedish Mårtensson or Mortensson (see Martenson and Mortenson ), which could also be substituted for the Finnish cognate Marttinen.
French: shortened form of Moreton 3.
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