When Edward Back was born on 23 July 1838, in Westwell, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Back, was 48 and his mother, Harriett Giles, was 42. He married Ann Marchant on 3 July 1864, in Pluckley, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Willesborough, Kent, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. He died after 1891, in East Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom.
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English (Devon, Kent, Sussex, and Norfolk): from the Middle English personal name Bakke (Old English Bacca). It is of uncertain origin, but may have been a byname in the same sense as 3.
English: nickname from Middle English bakke ‘bat’, of uncertain application, perhaps a nickname for a person with poor eyesight, from the expression ‘blind as a bat’.
English: from Middle English bakke ‘back’ (Old English bæc), hence a nickname for someone with a hunched back or some other noticeable peculiarity of the back or spine, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or ridge, or at the rear of a settlement.
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