When Hannah Girton was born about 1800, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Esau Girton, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Heller, was 24. She married Henry Everett from 1818 to 1854. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Montour, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Madison Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died after 1870.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Girton or Gretton. Gretton in Northamptonshire, as well as Girton in Nottinghamshire and Cambridgeshire, are named from Old English grēot ‘gravel’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. Gretton in Shropshire is named from Old English grēoten ‘gravelly’ + tūn, while Gretton, Gloucestershire, is ‘farmstead (tūn) near Greet (Old English grēote ‘gravelly place’)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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