When William Dorton was born in 1848, in Nickelsville, Scott, Virginia, United States, his father, John B. Dorton, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Smith, was 30.
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Name changed from Nickolsville to Nickelsville in 1938.
English (Surrey, Kent, and Essex): habitational name from Dorton, Buckinghamshire, recorded in 1313 as Durton, from Old English dor ‘narrow pass’ + tūn ‘settlement’.
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