When Abraham Flint was born in 1771, in Darley, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Abraham Flint, was 28 and his mother, Lydia Frost, was 27. He died on 11 August 1848, in St George's Church, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 77, and was buried in St George's Church, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English and German: topographic name for someone who lived near a significant outcrop of flint (from Old and Middle English, Low German flint), or a nickname for a hard-hearted or physically tough individual, metaphorically as hard as flint.
Welsh: habitational name from Flint in Clwyd, which gave its name to the old county of Flintshire.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Flinte ‘shotgun’.
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