When Ann Deacon was born in 1791, in Steppingley, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Deacon, was 25 and her mother, Mary Wilson, was 26. She married Henry Phillips on 13 May 1812, in Flitwick, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died before 1868, in her hometown.
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English: from Middle English deken, dicoun ‘deacon, a priest's assistant at church services’ (Old French diacne, Old English diacon, dēacon, both ultimately from Late Latin diaconus, from Greek diakonos ‘servant’). Since deacons were in holy orders they would not be permitted to marry (with allowance for those few already married when ordained), so the surname is probably in most cases a secular nickname rather than the name of a church official, perhaps denoting a deacon's servant.
English: variant of Dicken .
Irish (Wexford): of English origin (see 1 and 2 above), taken to Ireland in the 17th century. When the Irish surname is not of English origin, it may be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deocáin ‘descendant of Deocán’, a personal name of uncertain etymology.
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