When Thomas Bolitho was born in 1765, in Madron, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Bolitho, was 25 and his mother, Catherine Johns, was 28. He married Maria Harris on 25 January 1802, in Bere Ferrers, Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 11 January 1858, in Gulval, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 93.
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Cornish: habitational name from either of two places in Cornwall named Bolitho, from Cornish bos, bod ‘dwelling’ + a personal name of uncertain form.
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