When Francis Marian Twidwell was born on 7 September 1851, in Lamoine Township, McDonough, Illinois, United States, his father, John Thomas Twidwell, was 33 and his mother, Henrietta Elizabeth Shelton, was 29. He married Caroline Lacretia Marvin on 18 April 1875. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Tennessee, McDonough, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 10 June 1933, in Lamoine Township, McDonough, Illinois, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Birmingham, Schuyler, Illinois, United States.
Possibly English: habitational name, possibly from Twydall in Kent, named from Old English twī ‘two’ + dāl ‘portion of land’. This surname is not found in current English sources.
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