When John Hole was born on 3 March 1730, in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Hole, was 26 and his mother, Mary, was 15. He married Catherine Talbot on 18 November 1773, in Caunton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He died on 23 March 1780, at the age of 50, and was buried in Caunton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (southwestern): topographic name for someone who lived in or by a hole or hollow, from Middle English hol(e) (Old English hol, holh, dative hole), or a habitational name from some minor place so named.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, so named from the dative singular or indefinite plural form of Old Norse hóll ‘round hill, mound’.
In some cases possibly also an American shortened form of Flemish Van Hole: habitational name from the common placename Hol(e), meaning ‘hollow, valley’; or a topographic name from the same term or from Middle Dutch hole, heule ‘(low) arched bridge, weir’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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