When John Dick was born on 22 August 1815, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Dick, was 20 and his mother, Lillias “Lilly” McKechnie, was 20. He married Ann Low on 4 December 1840, in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1851. He died on 10 February 1898, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Tooele City Cemetery, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Joshua Breckon BIRTH 24 Apr 1804 DEATH 1845 (aged 40–41) BURIAL Tooele City Cemetery Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, USA Show Map PLOT Section 1 MEMORIAL ID 208591655
English and Scottish: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Dick, also found as Dike and Deke, pet forms of Rick (see Richard ). Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was taken to northern Ireland and thence to North America.
English: variant of Dyke .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German dic(ke) ‘thick, strong, stout’, or in the case of the Jewish name from German dick or Yiddish dik ‘fat’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesCatherine Kaye Grant S.U.P. National Headquarters - Heritage Hall December 19, 1983 John Taylor Dick, son of John and Agnes Whitelock Dick, was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, October 3, 1 …
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