When Henry Paling was born on 24 April 1793, in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Palin, was 36 and his mother, Mary Knight, was 11790. He married Hannah Ridding in 1821, in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, England in 1841 and Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. He died on 17 March 1875, in Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 81.
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English: usually a variant of Palin .
English: occasionally perhaps a habitational name from Poling (Sussex). The placename probably derives from Old English pāl ‘stake, pole’ or a personal name derived from this word + the groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga). However, it is uncertain that this surname has survived.
Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a seller or catcher of eels, from Middle Dutch paeldinc, modern Dutch paling ‘eel’. Compare Paulding and Pawling .
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