When Grace Broadbent was born on 11 June 1836, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Broadbent, was 25 and her mother, Mary Greenwood, was 25. She married Jesse Easters Murphy on 28 April 1857, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870 and Wilford, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 18 February 1924, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English (northern): habitational name from a minor place in Lancashire, near Oldham, named Broadbent, from Old English brād ‘broad’ (see Broad ) + beonet ‘bent grass’.
English: occasionally a variant of B roadbelt, from Middle English brod, brad ‘wide, broad’ + belt ‘belt, girdle’, used for a stout man, i.e. someone who wore a ‘broad belt’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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