When Ann Blacknall was born in 1819, in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Blacknall, was 23 and her mother, Jane Hallam, was 22. She died in England, United Kingdom.
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English (Nottinghamshire): habitational name from Blakenhall in Caldwell (Derbyshire), Blakenall (Staffordshire), or some lost or unidentified place similarly named, from Old English blæc ‘black’ + halh ‘nook’.
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