When William Hitch Strickland was born in 1790, in Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, England, his father, Samuel West Strickland, was 24 and his mother, Mary Hitch, was 27. He married Mary Finkell on 9 November 1813, in Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Little Eversden, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died in July 1855, in Caxton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 65, and was buried in Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Great and Little Strickland (Westmorland) or Strickland Ketel and Strickland Roger (also Westmorland). The placenames derive from Old English stīrc ‘stirk, young bullock or heifer’ + land ‘land’.
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