When John Kent was born in 1625, in Calvert, Cecil, Maryland, United States, his father, Humphrey Kent, was 23 and his mother, Joan Arundell, was 23. He died on 20 June 1666, in Northumberland, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 41.
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English and Irish: habitational name from the county of Kent. The surname is also established in Ireland, where English bearers of this name settled in Meath, in the 13th century. The name has been Gaelicized as Ceannt.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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