When Chester Cornwell was born on 1 December 1787, in Granville, Granville, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Ozias Cornwell, was 25 and his mother, Susannah Robinson, was 26. He married Penelope Chappel on 4 March 1816, in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1820 and Tolland, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1830. He died on 19 June 1858, in Otis, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Otis, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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English:
habitational name from Cornwell in Oxfordshire, named from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.
variant of Cornwall or Cornhill; in southeastern England mainly a habitational name from Cornhill in London but elsewhere alternatively from Cornhill (Northumberland) or one of the many minor places so called, often becoming Cornell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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