When John Payne was born in 1798, in Blaby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Randal Payne, was 28 and his mother, Mary Dunn, was 11795. He married Ann Bodin about 1821, in Blaby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Leicester St Margaret, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom for about 30 years. He died on 16 June 1874, in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 76.
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English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pai(e)n, Pagen (from Latin Paganus), a fairly common personal name among Normans. It derived from a word that originally meant ‘villager, rustic’, later ‘heathen’, but it had doubtless lost these connotations in its use as a late medieval personal name. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
History: Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. See also Paine .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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