When Thomas A. Kendall was born on 8 October 1855, in Utah, United States, his father, William Erber Kendall Sr., was 24 and his mother, Alice Ann Swift, was 22. He married Leah Jane Marshall on 8 October 1884, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 25 April 1911, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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English: habitational name from Kendal in Cumbria, which takes its name from the river Kent + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’, or from the valley of the river Kent itself.
English (of Welsh origin): from an Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Cynddelw, which was borne by a famous 12th-century Welsh poet. It probably derives from a Celtic word meaning ‘exalted, high’ + delw ‘image, effigy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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