When Preussen Orrell was born in 1772, in Beaufort, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Louis Orrell, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth May Evett, was 30. She had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with James H. Galloway. She died in 1829, in her hometown, at the age of 57, and was buried in Sugar Grove, Logan, Arkansas, United States.
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English (Lancashire): habitational name from either of two minor places in Lancashire called Orell. The placename derives from Old English ōra ‘bank, slope, hill, edge’ or ōra ‘ore’ + hyll ‘hill’.
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