When Henry Pointer was born on 16 March 1828, in Michelmersh, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Pointer, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Russell, was 27. He married Ellen Lant on 19 January 1852, in East Wellow, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in West Wellow, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Ockley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1871. He died in September 1875, in Dorking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 47, and was buried in Dorking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
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English (southeastern): occupational name, either from Middle English pointere, pointour ‘tiler’ (from an unrecorded Middle English pointer, an agent derivative of pointe, poynte ‘tie, lace, or cord, of twisted yarn, silk, or leather’, for a maker of points for fastening hose and doublet together), or sometimes perhaps from Middle English pointer ‘painter’. Compare Poynter .
In some cases also an American shortened form (or a very rare German variant) of South German (mainly Bavaria) Pointner, itself a variant of Paintner .
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