When Francis Vivian was christened on 10 August 1575, in Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornwall, England, his father, Hannibal Vivian, was 21 and his mother, Phillipa Tremayne, was 20. He married Loveday Connock on 25 October 1610, in Cornwall, England. They were the parents of at least 13 sons and 2 daughters. He died in June 1635, in his hometown, at the age of 59, and was buried in Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornwall, England.
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English: from the Old French and Middle English personal name Vivian, Vivien, from Latin Vivianus (derivative of vivus ‘living’), the name of a 5th-century Christian martyr. As a personal name its comparative rarity in medieval England gave it a distinctiveness that encouraged its use as a surname. Its pronunciation appears to have caused difficulty and it is found in a large variety of forms, not all of which have survived. Developments include the interchange of initial V and F, the interchange of intervocalic v and th, and the further interchange of th and d; thus Vivian became Fivian, which became Fithian, which became Fidian. See also Fithen .
French: mainly southern variant of the personal name Vivien (see 1 above).
Spanish and Galician (Vivián): from the personal name Vivián (see 1 above). Compare Bibian .
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