When Mary Jane Bewick was born about 1835, in Penshaw, Durham, England, her father, Thomas Bewick I, was 32 and her mother, Margaret Turnbull, was 33. She married Richard Hamilton on 28 May 1855, in Monkwearmouth All Saints, Durham, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Durham, England, United Kingdom for about 30 years and Chester le Street, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1901. She died on 6 December 1908, in Houghton le Spring, Durham, England, at the age of 74.
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English (northern): habitational name from either of two places in Northumberland and East Yorkshire called Bewick, named from Old English bēo ‘bee’ + wīc ‘outlying farm’, hence an outlying location with beehives, for the production of honey.
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