Brief Life History of James
When James Hallam was born in 1756, his father, Samuel Hallam, was 47 and his mother, Mary Cooper, was 43. He died on 18 March 1756, in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, England, at the age of 0, and was buried in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, England.
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- James Hallum, "England, Nottinghamshire, Church Records, 1578-1937"
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Name Meaning
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-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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