When Marie Malan was born about 1669, in San Giovanni, Luserna San Giovanni, Turin, Piedmont, Italy, her father, Barthelemy Malan, was 32 and her mother, Marguerite Blanchet, was 28. She died in 1720, at the age of 52.
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French: nickname from the Occitan word malan meaning ‘poor crop/harvest’ (from Latin malus annus) and, by extension, ‘misfortune’. This surname (in any of the two possible senses; see also 2 below) is also established in South Africa.
French: habitational name from Malan, the name of several places in the southern part of France.
English: variant of Malin and Mayland .
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