When Robert Flint was born in 1774, in Darley, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Abraham Flint, was 31 and his mother, Lydia Frost, was 30. He was buried in Darley, Derbyshire, 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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