When Frances Susan Pennington was born on 16 September 1828, in Webbville, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, her father, Abel Pennington, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Smith, was 37. She married Jordan S Waddell in 1844, in Elliott, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Magisterial District 4, Elliott, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 11 September 1908, in Ibex, Elliott, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Ibex, Elliott, Kentucky, United States.
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According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
English (mainly Lancashire and Cumbria):
habitational name from Pennington in Furness (Lancashire), which derives from Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, or from Pennington in Leigh (Lancashire), which probably derives from the Old English personal name Pinna + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + Old English tūn.
habitational name from Pennington (Hampshire), or from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hampshire); see Penton . All have the same etymology as Pennington in Furness; see 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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