When William Pilkington was christened on 5 November 1768, in Bolton, Lancashire, England, his father, Roger Pilkington, was 33 and his mother, Mary Lomax, was 28.
English (northwestern): habitational name from a place in Lancashire. The placename may derive from an Old English personal name Pīleca or Pīloc + patronymic -ing + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The surname is established in Ireland, where its presence was first recorded in the early 15th century.
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