When Jane Peel was born on 24 March 1796, in Accrington, Lancashire, England, her father, Jonathan Peel, was 43 and her mother, Esther Bolton, was 34. She died on 27 May 1862, at the age of 66.
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English (mainly northern): topographic name for someone who lived or worked at a small castle, a wooden fort, or a house defended by a palisade (Middle English and Old French pel, piel ‘stake, pallisade’), or a habitational name from a place so named.
English (mainly northern): variant of Pell .
English (mainly northern): nickname from Middle English and Old French pel ‘stake’, perhaps for a tall, thin person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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