When Matthias Simcock was born in 1742, in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Joseph Simcock, was 31 and his mother, Mary Harvey, was 20. He married Anne Whitson on 20 June 1764, in Buckingham Monthly Meeting, Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died on 20 June 1784, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 42.
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English (mainly northwest): from the Middle English personal name Simcock ‘young Simon’, a compound of Sim(m) or Sime (see Sim ) + the diminutive suffix -cock.
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