When Benjamin Franklin Pennock was born on 14 May 1907, in Bourbon, Crawford, Missouri, United States, his father, Ambrose Michael Pennock, was 37 and his mother, Martha Lucinda Sites, was 32. He married Jurine M. Cressy from 1927 to 1929. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Boone Township, Crawford, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Washington Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died on 25 June 2004, in Douglas, Cochise, Arizona, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Douglas, Cochise, Arizona, United States.
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English (mainly North Yorkshire): perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Penoc, which might be a pet form of Old English Pǣgna, of uncertain origin.
Welsh: perhaps a nickname from Middle Welsh pennoc ‘big- headed’, ‘with a large head’, possibly ‘headstrong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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