When Broughton Whitehall Esq was born in 1685, in Broughton, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, John Whitehall, was 42 and his mother, Mary Hocket, was 21. He married Letitia Davies on 4 November 1716, in Wales. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He died on 19 September 1734, in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 49, and was buried in Worthenbury, Flintshire, Wales.
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English: habitational name from Whitehalgh in Blackburn (Lancashire) or Whitehall (Shropshire), which derive from Old English hwīt ‘white’ + halh ‘nook’. In some instances the name may derive from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hall ‘hall’, or from a building or a place so named.
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