When Richard Dalton was born in 1380, in Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, England, his father, Sir John II Dalton, was 25 and his mother, Isabel de Pilkington, was 13. He had at least 2 daughters with Alice de Clifford. He died in 1442, in England, United Kingdom, at the age of 62.
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John Wycliffe, English theologian and professor at the University of Oxford, completed a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into Middle English. This translation is known as Wycliffe's Bible and was completed around 1382.
English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Dalton in Westmorland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see Dale ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: The surname was taken to Ireland by English traders in the early 13th century .
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