When John Blackshaw Wharton Jr was born on 9 September 1748, in Falls Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Joseph Wharton, was 28 and his mother, Phoebe Blackshaw, was 30. He married Mary Cutler on 12 September 1770, in Fallsington, Falls Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 7 September 1785, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 36.
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English:
habitational name from any of various places called Wharton, in Westmorland, Cheshire, and Lincolnshire, or from Warton in Lancashire, Northumberland, and Warwickshire. The Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Northumberland placenames probably derive from Old English weard ‘watch’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Cheshire and Warwickshire placenames derive from Old English wæfre ‘swamp, marshy ground’ + tūn. The Westmorland placename may derive from Old English hwearf ‘embankment, shore, wharf’ + tūn.
perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Wiverton in Nottinghamshire, derived from the Old English personal name Wīgfrith + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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