When Mary Margaret Pilkington was born in July 1795, in Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Pilkington, was 17 and her mother, Mary Horrocks, was 25. She married John Abraham William Ion on 13 July 1814, in Bolton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 29 October 1850, in Clarion, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Strattanville, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English (northwestern): habitational name from a place in Lancashire. The placename may derive from an Old English personal name Pīleca or Pīloc + patronymic -ing + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The surname is established in Ireland, where its presence was first recorded in the early 15th century.
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