When Thomas Palin was born on 29 November 1782, in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, England, his father, John Palin, was 32 and his mother, Mary Knight, was 11779. He was buried in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
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The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
French: habitational name from (Le) Palin, the name of several places mainly in the western part of France.
English: variant of Paulin ; with late Middle English -a(y)- for -au-.
Swedish: ornamental or habitational name formed with the root of Latin palus ‘wetland’ (alluding to placenames such as Kärr, meaning ‘marsh’, and Mossarp, named with mosse ‘marsh’) + the adjectival suffix -in, a derivative of Latin -in(i)us ‘relating to’. This surname is also found in Finland, where it is more common than in Sweden and where it may also be derived from placenames such as Palus and Palo. Compare Pallin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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