When Edward Francis Blaisdell was born on 8 October 1860, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, his father, John Lewis Blaisdell, was 60 and his mother, Rosanna McCann, was 47. He married Aiau Apana in June 1891, in Pāpa'ikou, Hawaii, Hawaii, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hawaii, Hawaii, United States for about 10 years. He died on 11 December 1921, in Hilo, Hawaii, Hawaii, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Päpa'ikou, Hawaii, Hawaii, United States.
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English (Cumbria and Lancashire): habitational name from a place inthe Lake District named Blaisdell, from the Old Norse bynameBlesi (from blesi ‘blaze, white spot’), or from thesame word used in the sense of a white spot on a hillside, + Old Norsedalr ‘valley’.
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