When John Thomas Tinsley was born in 1865, in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Tinsley, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Ridgeway, was 32. He died in 1865, at the age of 0.
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English:
habitational name from a place in South Yorkshire near Rotherham, named in Old English with the genitive case of an unattested personal name Tynni + hlāw ‘hill’, ‘mound, barrow’. This surname is also found in Ulster.
habitational name from Tinsley Green in Worth (Sussex). The placename appears to derive from an unattested Old English personal name Tint + Old English lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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