When Benjamin Warren was born on 13 May 1729, in Kent, Delaware, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin Warren, was 25 and his mother, Mary Edmunds Clifton, was 17. He married Lydia Sipple on 20 February 1751, in New Castle, New Castle, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 6 April 1772, in his hometown, at the age of 42.
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English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Warin, Werin, a borrowing of ancient Germanic Warino, a short form of various compound names based on the element warin ‘protection, shelter’ or ‘guard’. Compare Waring .
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from La Varrenne in Seine-Maritime, France, named with a Gaulish element probably descriptive of alluvial land or sandy soil. This was the name of a major Norman family after the Conquest. In Ireland, this name has been Gaelicized as Bharain.
Irish: adopted as an English form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane , Warner ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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