When Ira Pennock was born in 1810, in Vermont, United States, his father, Daniel Pennock, was 23 and his mother, Lucy Benjamin, was 18. He died on 6 January 1873, in Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, United States.
English (mainly North Yorkshire): perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Penoc, which might be a pet form of Old English Pǣgna, of uncertain origin.
Welsh: perhaps a nickname from Middle Welsh pennoc ‘big- headed’, ‘with a large head’, possibly ‘headstrong’.
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