When William Westcott was christened on 2 March 1712, in North Molton, Devon, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Westcott, was 28 and his mother, Rose Bright, was 31.
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English (Devon and Somerset): habitational name from any of various minor places called with Old English west ‘west’ + cot ‘cottage, shelter’, for example Westcott (Surrey, Devon, Buckinghamshire), Westcot (Berkshire), or Westcote in (Gloucestershire, Hampshire, and Warwickshire).
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