When Mary Francis Birkett was born on 3 April 1882, in Stamford Hill St Thomas, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Louis Birkett, was 30 and her mother, Agnes Wreford, was 29. She married William P PARKER in March 1915, in Bromley, Kent, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Chislehurst, Kent, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. She died in September 1978, in Tonbridge, Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 96.
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English (northern): topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) birch-covered headland’, northern Middle English birk(e) + he(ve)d, haved (Old English birce, influenced by Scandinavian birki + Old English hēafod or Old Norse hǫfuth). There are many minor places in northern England named from this compound. The main source of the surname may have been Birkhead, near Kendal in Westmorland. There has been some confusion with Burkett .
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