When Susannah Bentley was born on 8 September 1812, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Francis Parriott Bentley, was 29 and her mother, Harriet Kitchen, was 23. She married Eli Wiggill on 20 February 1831, in Grahamstown, Albany, Cape Colony, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 29 August 1869, in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesSusannah came from a family of lace makers in England. She was the eldest daughter of her family, being born on September 8, 1813 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, the daughter of William Bentley an …
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