When Howard Jennings Spicknall was born on 10 January 1909, in Gregory, Gregory, South Dakota, United States, his father, Charles Luthridge Spicknall, was 41 and his mother, Matilda Nelson Hoel, was 27. He married Shirley Loraine Larson on 28 July 1939, in Lyon, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Mellette, South Dakota, United States in 1935 and Berlin Election Precinct, Otoe, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 31 August 1977, in Castro Valley, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Hayward, Alameda, California, United States.
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Norman, English: (i) occupational name, status name from Anglo-Norman French * (e)spigurnel, * sprigonel ‘sealer of writs’ (in the royal chancery). It is a word of obscure origin and is only certainly recorded in its Medieval Latin forms (e)spigurnellus and sprigonellus (which are attested in English documents from 1193 onwards) and in the related Latin terms for the office itself: espicurnaucia (1279), espicornelia (about 1283), and spigurnalcia (1286). Members of the Spigurnel family in the late 12th and 13th centuries may have taken their name from having held the office (which was perhaps a hereditary one), though there is no independent confirmation of this. (ii) nickname, possibly from Middle English, Old French, and Anglo-Norman French spigurnel(le), Modern English spignel, the name of a herb, particularly the umbellifer Meum athamanticum. Its aromatic root was formerly dried, ground up, and used in medicine as a carminative or stimulant or as a spice in cookery. It might have been given as a nickname for a herbalist or physician. However, the earliest bearers of the surname were members of a high-ranking family in royal service, one of whom was Edmund le Espycurnel’ (1285), where the use of the definite article points strongly to the sense suggested in (i).
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