When Robert "Bob" William Denton was born on 26 June 1914, in Alpena, Michigan, United States, his father, William Albert "Al" Denton, was 35 and his mother, Eva Claire McKelvey, was 27. He married Pauline "Polly" Annetta Van Antwerp on 6 November 1937, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Detroit Ward 1, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died on 18 February 2002, in Alpena, Alpena, Michigan, United States, at the age of 87.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. The vast majority, including those in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in the Domesday Book as Dodintone meaning ‘enclosure, settlement associated with Dodda or Dudda’.
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