When Joseph James Penn was born on 19 July 1842, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Penn, was 19 and his mother, Jane Ruff, was 20. He married Mary Simkins on 12 August 1866, in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died in April 1907, at the age of 64.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English: habitational name from either of two places called Penn (in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire), both of which are named with Brittonic penn ‘head’, often used in hill-names.
English: topographic name or metonymic occupational name from Middle English pen(n) ‘enclosure, animal pen, fold’ (Old English penn), for someone who lived by or worked at a fold. Examples of this surname are formally difficult to distinguish from those in 1 above.
English: from a pet form of the female personal name Pernel, see Parnell .
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