When Polly Ann Wilcox was born on 11 April 1829, in New York, United States, her father, Daniel Wilcox, was 34 and her mother, Olive Eddy, was 31. She married Francis Willard on 1 September 1850, in Columbus Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died after 1870.
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English (Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Flintshire): variant of Wilcock , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is based on the pronunciation.
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