Brief Life History of Roy or Leroy
When Roy or Leroy Pennington was born on 12 October 1877, in Illinois, United States, his father, James Bryson Pennington, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Warthen, was 21. He lived in Chickasaw, Iowa, United States in 1880. He died on 27 December 1883, in Richland Township, Chickasaw, Iowa, United States, at the age of 6.
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Sources (2)
- Roy Pennington in household of James Pennington, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Roy Pennington - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Roy Pennington
Parents and Siblings
1850–1893 Male
1855–1947 Female
Siblings (8)
1877–1883 Male
1879–1908 Female
1881–1900 Male
1884–1967 Male
1886–1971 Female
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World Events (2)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 4
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
Age 5
Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire and Cumbria):
habitational name from Pennington in Furness (Lancashire), which derives from Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, or from Pennington in Leigh (Lancashire), which probably derives from the Old English personal name Pinna + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + Old English tūn.
habitational name from Pennington (Hampshire), or from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hampshire); see Penton . All have the same etymology as Pennington in Furness; see 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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