When Lorna Colvin was born on 22 September 1899, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Lachoneus Alamander Colvin, was 34 and her mother, Juliannah Patten, was 32. She died on 22 September 1899, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Payson City Cemetery, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Scottish and Irish (Donegal, Antrim): variant of Colville , probably reflecting a local pronunciation. The name was taken to Ulster in the 17th century.
Manx: if not identical with 1, perhaps from the Old Norse personal name Kolbeinn, with /v/ substituted for /b/.
English: from the rare Middle English personal name Colwin, Colvin, which may be a borrowing into English of a Welsh name whose modern form is Collwyn ‘white’, or of colwyn ‘doe, puppy, pet dog’, or of the placename Colwyn (Denbighshire, Radnorshire).
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