When Nathaniel Brindle was born in October 1850, in Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire, England, his father, James Brindle, was 38 and his mother, Ellen Ormshaw, was 37. He married Margaret Ellen Winstanley in 1872, in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Goose Green, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Wigan All Saints, Lancashire, England in 1891. He died on 24 November 1913, in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 63.
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English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Brindle, from Old English burna ‘stream’ + hyll ‘hill’.
South German: rare variant of Brindl or Bründl (and, in North America, also an altered form of these), a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, from a Bavarian diminutive of Middle High German brun(ne) ‘spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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