Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Belton was born in 1749, in County Offaly, Ireland, her father, John Belton, was 40 and her mother, Rebecca Anstead, was 38.
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World Events (3)
1798
Battle of Antrim.
1798
The Young Ireland rebellion of 1798 failed.
1839
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Belton, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Suffolk. The first element, bel, is of uncertain origin; the second is Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
English: occasionally a variant of Bilton , a habitational name from Bilton in Warwickshire.
Irish: from the Norman name Weldon , relatively common in Ireland, which has sometimes been Gaelicized as de Bhéalatún and re-Anglicized as Veldon and Belton.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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