When John Kirton was born on 14 February 1832, in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Kirton, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Jackson, was 33. He married Grace Barrass on 25 December 1854, in St Hilda, South Shields, Durham, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hedworth and Monkton and Jarrow, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 30 April 1884, in South Shields, Durham, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 52.
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English: habitational name from Kirton (Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk), or Kirton in Lindsey (Lincolnshire). The placenames derive from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ (probably replacing Old English cirice ‘church’) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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