When John Brindley was born in 1766, in Norton in the Moors, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Brindley, was 21 and his mother, Sarah Dawson, was 28. He married Jane Dale on 28 October 1787. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 30 March 1836, at the age of 70, and was buried in Norton in the Moors, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (northwest Midlands and Staffordshire): habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Brindley, from Old English berned ‘burnt’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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