When Laura Pennington was born on 18 November 1886, in Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa, United States, her father, James Bryson Pennington, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Warthen, was 30. She lived in Plainfield, Will, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. She died on 21 June 1971, in Joliet, Will, Illinois, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Plainfield Township Cemetery, Plainfield, Will, Illinois, United States.
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1886–1971 Female
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English (mainly Lancashire and Cumbria):
habitational name from Pennington in Furness (Lancashire), which derives from Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, or from Pennington in Leigh (Lancashire), which probably derives from the Old English personal name Pinna + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + Old English tūn.
habitational name from Pennington (Hampshire), or from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hampshire); see Penton . All have the same etymology as Pennington in Furness; see 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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