When William Garnett was born in 1772, in West Worldham, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Garnett, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Clear, was 37. He married Jane Ewens on 2 February 1792, in Chawton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 5 daughters. He died in September 1860, in Chawton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 88, and was buried in Chawton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (Lancashire, Westmorland, and Yorkshire): from a shortened form of the Old French personal name G(u)erinot, a diminutive of G(u)erin, a Central or Parisian Old French form of Werin or Warin (see Warren ). The development to Garnett is from the common late Middle English lowering of e to a before r + consonant.
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