When Margaret Linn Wathen was born in 1828, in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Thomas B. Wathen, was 36 and her mother, Rebecca Wood, was 25. She married James Llewellyn Smith Sr. in 1848, in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Allegheny Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. In 1880, at the age of 52, her occupation is listed as keeping house. She died on 16 March 1912, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 84.
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Welsh: possibly from the personal name Gwaiddan, which is found as part of placenames in Robeston Wathen, near Narberth, Pembrokeshire, and the nearby Llanwathen (from Welsh llan ‘church’ + Gwaiddon).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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