When Humphrey Simpkin was born on 24 June 1792, in Sutton Bonington St Michael, Nottinghamshire, England, his father, Humphrey Simpkin, was 24 and his mother, Bridget Bywater, was 24. He married Elizabeth Savage on 30 October 1821, in Sutton Bonington St Michael, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He died on 13 March 1867, in Sutton Bonington St Michael, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74, and was buried in Sutton Bonington St Michael, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: variant of Simkin .
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