When Hannah Dunkley was born on 2 September 1808, in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Dunkley, was 24 and her mother, Mary Dunkley, was 24. She married John Shrives on 9 March 1834, in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She lived in Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Stanwick, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 2 May 1888, at the age of 79.
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(Northamptonshire): habitational name from Dinckley in Lancashire, recorded as Dunkythele in 1246 and Dinkedeley in 1258, probably arising from an old British name, composed of elements meaning ‘fort’ + ‘wood’, with the addition of Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
in the South Midlands perhaps a variant of Dingley .
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