When Gardiner T. Kenyon was born on 13 February 1765, in Hopkinton, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Peleg Kenyon, was 28 and his mother, Joanna Barber, was 26. He married Hannah Sheldon in 1778, in Washington, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1793. He died in 1798, in West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 33.
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English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. There was formerly an ancient burial mound there and Ekwall has speculated that the name is a shortened form of a British name composed of the elements crūc ‘mound’ + a personal name cognate with Welsh Einion (see Eynon ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinín ‘son of Coinín’, a byname based on a diminutive of cano ‘wolf’, also Anglicized as Canning and Cunneen . The similarity to the borrowed word coinín ‘coney, rabbit’ has sometimes caused this name to be Anglicized as Rabbitt .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhinghin, ‘son of Finghen’, a personal name meaning ‘fair-born’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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