When Deborah Ann Bodkin was born in 1814, in Pendleton, West Virginia, United States, her father, Thomas Bodkin Sr, was 53 and her mother, Margaret Devericks, was 47. She married Samuel Iota Fitzpatrick on 26 September 1831, in Nelson, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 26 January 1882, in Hutton, Coles, Illinois, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Whetstone Cemetery, Hutton Township, Coles, Illinois, United States.
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Irish (Galway) and English (Kent): from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Bodekin, an Anglo-Norman borrowing of Middle Dutch Bodekin, a pet form of the personal name Baldwin . The name was described by McLysaght as the name of one of the ‘Tribes of Galway’ in Ireland.
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Possible Related NamesDeborah Ann Bodkin died January 26, 1882 in Hutton Township, Coles County Illinois at age 68 years old. She was buried in Whetstone Cemetery. There is evidence of a grave by the side of her husband …
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