When Philippa Pearn was christened on 5 May 1796, her father, William Pearn, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Budge, was 36.
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English (Cornwall): habitational name from a lost or as yet unidentified place, presumably named with the Middle English and Old English adjective peren ‘having pears’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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