When William Hallam was born in 1806, in Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Hallam, was 30 and his mother, Hannah Silvester, was 24. He married Phoebe Woodward on 7 October 1833, in Kinoulton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Clipston, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Plumtree, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died in 1891, in Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 85.
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English (North Midlands): habitational name from Halam (Nottinghamshire) or from Kirk or West Hallam (Derbyshire), all named with the Old English dative plural halum ‘(at the) nooks or corners of land’ (from Old English halh ‘nook, recess’; see Hale 1). The name may also be derived from Hallam in Sheffield (Yorkshire), sometimes called Hallamshire, named from Old English hallum ‘(at the) rocks’, the dative plural of Old English hall ‘stone, rock’, Old Norse hallr.
English: possibly a variant of Allam with prosthetic H-.
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