When Belinda Marden was born on 24 December 1820, in Chichester, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, her father, John Marden, was 48 and her mother, Rachel Shaw, was 45. She married Benjamin Abbott Hilton on 27 May 1840, in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 19 February 1894, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of several places so called in Kent, Essex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, and Sussex, or from Meriden (Warwickshire) or Merriden Farm (Surrey). Marden (Kent) derives from Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary, border’ + denn ‘woodland pasture’. Marden Ash (Essex) and The Mardens in Caterham (Surrey) derive from Old English (ge)mǣre + Old English denu ‘valley’, denoting a valley that formed a border such as a parish boundary. Marden Hill in Tewin (Hertfordshire), Marden Park in Godstone (Surrey), Meriden (Warwickshire), and Merriden Farm in Dorking (Surrey) all denote ‘pleasant valley’, from Old English myrig + Old English denu. East Marden, North Marden, and Up Marden (Sussex) derive from Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary’ + dūn ‘hill’.
English: habitational name from Marden in Herefordshire. The place takes its name from the district name Maund (see Maund ) + Old English worthign ‘enclosure’.
English: perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Marden in Wiltshire. The placename probably means ‘fertile valley’, from Old English mearg ‘marrow, fat’ + denu ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesDaughter of John Marden & Rachel Shaw 6th wife of Parley P. Pratt Whom we come through I, Belinda Marden Pratt was born in Chichester, Merrimack Co., state of New Hampshire on Dec. 24, 1820. I …
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