When Mary P. Billingsley was born on 4 June 1745, in St. Mary's, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Billingsley, was 49 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Wilmouth, was 28. She married Abraham Martin Bowen in 1760, in Calvert, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 21 August 1810, in Calvert, Maryland, United States, at the age of 65.
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English (West Midlands): habitational name from a place in Shropshire named Billingsley, from Old English Billingeslēah ‘clearing (Old English lēah) near a sword-shaped hill’ (billing). See Bill 2.
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