When John Greener was born in 1783, in Ryton, Durham, England, his father, John Greener, was 46 and his mother, Margaret Smith, was 50.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
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English (Durham and Northumberland): habitational name perhaps from Greenhaugh in Northumberland, named from Old English grēne ‘green’ + halh ‘nook, recess’. Compare Greenhalgh .
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Griner .
Americanized form of German Grüner (see Gruener ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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