When William Denton was born on 19 December 1850, in Rushden, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Ephraim Denton, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Twelvetree, was 30. He married Ann Jackson on 27 December 1877, in Buffalo, Scott, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in England, United Kingdom in 1851 and What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, United States in 1880. He died on 27 December 1906, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Iuka Township Cemetery, Iuka, Pratt, Kansas, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. The vast majority, including those in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in the Domesday Book as Dodintone meaning ‘enclosure, settlement associated with Dodda or Dudda’.
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