When William McDonald Heaton was born on 13 September 1855, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Heaton, was 28 and his mother, Esther Beilby, was 24. He died on 26 September 1856, in Little Mountain, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places called with Old English hēah ‘high’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’: Heaton (Yorkshire, Northumberland); Heaton Norris, Heaton under Horwich, Heaton with Oxcliffe, Great Heaton, Little Heaton (all Lancashire); Capheaton, Kirkheaton (Northumberland); Cleckheaton, Hanging Heaton, Kirkheaton (Yorkshire). This surname was taken to Ireland in the mid 17th century, and within Ireland is now mainly found in Ulster.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
William McDonald Heaton, born 13 September 1855 in Edinburgh, Scotland; died 26 September 1856 at Little Mountain, Salt Lake, Utah. Remembered at the Pioneer Children’s Memorial at This is the Place …
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