When Jennie O Blaisdell was born on 12 May 1858, in Honolulu, Oahu, Kingdom of Hawaii, her father, John Lewis Blaisdell, was 58 and her mother, Rosanna McCann, was 45. She married William Weight Jr on 3 June 1879, in Honolulu, Oahu, Kingdom of Hawaii. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Hawaii, Hawaii, United States in 1920 and Hilo, Hawaii, Hawaii, United States in 1930. She died on 14 February 1946, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, at the age of 87.
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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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