When Peter Polkinghorn was born on 6 September 1772, in Sithney, Cornwall, England, his father, Stephen Polkinghorn, was 51 and his mother, Margaret Perry, was 39. He married Mary Ellis on 5 June 1802, in Phillack, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 23 January 1823, in Phillack, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 50, and was buried in Phillack, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Cornish: habitational name from a place in the parish of Gwinear,recorded in 1316 as Polkenhoern, from Cornish pol‘pool, pond’ + the Old Cornish personal name Kenhoern(composed of elements meaning ‘hound’ + ‘iron’).
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