When Bessie Preston was born on 10 April 1874, in Virginia, United States, her father, Charles Isaac Preston Sr., was 40 and her mother, Mary Persinger, was 34. She lived in Richmond, Virginia, United States in 1930 and Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, United States in 1930. She died on 15 February 1959, in Staunton, Virginia, United States, at the age of 84.
English:
habitational name from one of the many places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
occasionally from Middle English prest + son ‘son of the priest’. Priests were forbidden marriage but many produced illegitimate offspring.
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