When William Frank Temple was born on 21 December 1868, in Pike, Missouri, United States, his father, Orville Everett Temple, was 30 and his mother, Julia A. Jeans, was 23. He married Hallie A. Brother in 1901, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Elsberry, Lincoln, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 19 November 1918, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Elsberry City Cemetery, Elsberry, Lincoln, Missouri, United States.
English (northern England and London), Scottish, and French: from Middle English, Old French temple ‘temple’ (from Latin templum), denoting a religious house or manorial estate of the Knights Templar. The surname may be a metonymic occupational name for someone who lived or worked at such an establishment, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Temple in Cornwall (Midlothian). The Knights Templar were a crusading order, so named because they claimed to occupy in Jerusalem the site of the old temple. The order was founded in 1118 and flourished for 200 years, but was suppressed as heretical in 1312.
English: nickname given to foundlings baptized at the Temple Church, London, so called because it was originally built on land belonging to the Templars.
Americanized form of North German or Dutch Tempel 1.
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