Brief Life History of Ninian
When Ninian Maxwell was born on 21 December 1645, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Maxwell, was 28 and his mother, Helen or Heleine Hill, was 29.
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- Ninian Maxwell, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Kelso, near Melrose in Roxburghshire, the name of a salmon pool on the Tweed near Kelso Bridge. The placename is first recorded in 1144 in the form Mackeswell ‘Mack's spring or stream’ (Old English well(a)).
Irish: adopted for Ó Meisceall, see Miskell . This surname is common in Ulster.
Jewish: arbitrary adoption of the Scottish name, or Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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