When Thomas Horton was born about 1708, in England, United Kingdom, his father, Walter Harold Horton, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Blakemore, was 33. He died on 23 March 1709, in Darlaston, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 2, and was buried in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
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