When Nancy Catherine Dillon was born on 21 May 1860, in Windsor Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States, her father, John Wylie Dillon Sr, was 32 and her mother, Catherine Sowards, was 25. She married William Ervin Roach on 8 February 1883, in Lawrence, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Guyan Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States in 1930 and Waterloo, Symmes Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States in 1943. She died on 9 December 1943, in Lawrence, Ohio, United States, at the age of 83.
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English, Irish, and French: from the Norman French personal name Dillon, arising from the ancient Germanic Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dil- ‘destroy’).
English: habitational name from Dilwyn in Herefordshire, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘settlement at the shady or secret places’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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