When Dinah Hallam was born on 7 October 1829, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Hallam, was 39 and her mother, Ann Wood, was 37. She married John Meads on 21 January 1849, in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. She died on 25 June 1886, in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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English (North Midlands): habitational name from Halam (Nottinghamshire) or from Kirk or West Hallam (Derbyshire), all named with the Old English dative plural halum ‘(at the) nooks or corners of land’ (from Old English halh ‘nook, recess’; see Hale 1). The name may also be derived from Hallam in Sheffield (Yorkshire), sometimes called Hallamshire, named from Old English hallum ‘(at the) rocks’, the dative plural of Old English hall ‘stone, rock’, Old Norse hallr.
English: possibly a variant of Allam with prosthetic H-.
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