When Mary Agnes Thirkell was born on 28 April 1847, in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Pinnock Thirkell, was 32 and her mother, Mary Brown, was 32. She lived in Corby, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 10 August 1853, at the age of 6, and was buried in Wyoming, United States.
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1 English: locative name; according to Redmonds, Dictionary of Yorks Surnames , the modern Yorks and Durham name is probably not from the name in (2) but a metathesized variant of Threlkeld . The connection is unambiguous in Lancelot Threlkelde, 1472 in Yorks Deeds (Londesborough, ER Yorks), and Christopher Thirkylde, 1556, Elizabeth Therkall, 1608 in York Registry Wills (Goodmanham, ER Yorks). Later examples include Thomas Thirkell, 1624, Thomasine Threlkeld, 1673 in IGI (Brancepeth, Durham); John Thirkeld, 1741, Dorothy Threlkeld, 1755 in IGI (Morpeth, Northumb); John Threlkeld, 1776, James Thirkell, 1822 in IGI (Kirkby Fleetham, NR Yorks).
2 English: relationship name from the Middle English personal name T(h)irkill, T(h)urkill (Old Scandinavian Þorkell, Thorkil, Thurkil, a contracted form of Þorketill). Compare Thirkettle . If the NR Yorks family name, cited in several examples below, survived into the modern period, it will have been confused with and absorbed by (1).
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
Possible Related NamesMary Agnes Thirkell, born 28 April 1847 in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England; died 10 August 1853 near a creek in Wyoming. Remembered at the Pioneer Children’s Memorial; Stone 4 (right side). …
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