When Mary Jane Esp was born in 1836, in Stanton Long, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Esp, was 35 and her mother, Ann Walker, was 29. She married Timothy Smout on 8 April 1858, in Shropshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Willenhall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Shipton, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died in 1919, in United Kingdom, at the age of 83.
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Americanized form of German Esch .
English (Durham and Yorkshire): variant of Ash .
History: This (see 1 above) is one of the variants of the name of a Swiss Mennonite family, originally spelled Oesch and later, in Germany, Esch .
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