When Nanny Blackwell was christened on 22 May 1791, in Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, England, her father, Richard Blackner, was 29 and her mother, Hannah Caunt, was 31. She was buried in Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, England.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackwell, for example in Cumbria, Derbyshire, County Durham, Warwickshire, Somerset, Devon, Sussex, and Worcestershire, named in Old English frp blæc ‘black, dark’ + wæll(a), well(a) ‘spring, stream’. Alternatively, it may be a topographic name for someone who lived by the ‘dark well or stream’, Middle English blak + wel(le).
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