When Myrtle Linda Nairn was born on 7 September 1885, in South Australia, Australia, her father, Walter Nairn, was 28 and her mother, Maria Box, was 29. She died on 13 July 1981, in her hometown, at the age of 95.
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Scottish: habitational name from Nairn (Nairns) near Inverness. The placename is taken from the River Nairn, which derives from a Celtic or pre-Celtic word perhaps meaning ‘penetrating one’.
History: First mentioned in North America in the Carolina plantation records in 1698, the name appears with Thomas Nairne, a landowner on St. Helena Island. He went on to be a SC assemblyman and an Indian agent.
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