When David Alexander Penry was born on 26 August 1861, in Iowa, United States, his father, Thomas Pugh Penry, was 42 and his mother, Catherine Addie Peckover, was 28. He married Nora Daly on 7 September 1891, in Saint Peters Mission, Cascade, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in School District 41 Barrett, Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States in 1910 and Washington Township, Sonoma, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 March 1940, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, California, United States.
Welsh (south Wales): Anglicized form of the Welsh ab, ap ‘son’ + the personal name Henry, hence ‘son of Henry’ (see Henry ). Some examples have an intrusive d (compare Hendry ).
Cornish: variant of Pendray, a habitational name from any of several places in Cornwall, such as Pendrea in Saint Buryan and Pendrift in Blisland, with names derived from Middle Cornish pen (an) dre ‘top of the village’ (pen ‘head, top, end’ + an ‘the’ + tre ‘village’).
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