When Mary Ann Wrigley was born in 1840, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Wrigley, was 35 and her mother, Margaret Shepherd, was 33. She married Joseph Richard Sutton in 1858. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died in 1889, in Penistone, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 49.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Wrigley Head near Salford (Lancashire), the second element of which is presumably Old English lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’; the first may be a personal name or topographic term from Old English wrigian ‘to strive, to bend or turn’.
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