When Catharine Malan was born on 7 April 1835, in Angrogna, Turin, Piedmont, Italy, her father, Jean Malan, was 44 and her mother, Madeleine Costabel, was 41. She married Pierre Etienne Rivoire in 1861, in Turin, Turin, Piedmont, Italy. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1872, at the age of 37.
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Austria regains control of most of Italy.
Northern Italy was joined to the Kingdom of Sardinia.
The Kingdom of Italy was formed under the leadership of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
French: nickname from the Occitan word malan meaning ‘poor crop/harvest’ (from Latin malus annus) and, by extension, ‘misfortune’. This surname (in any of the two possible senses; see also 2 below) is also established in South Africa.
French: habitational name from Malan, the name of several places in the southern part of France.
English: variant of Malin and Mayland .
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