When James Percival was born in 1854, in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Percival, was 38 and his mother, Mary Mace, was 34. He married Mary Ann Lester on 25 December 1875, in Norbury by Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Cheadle, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Norbury by Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1875. He died in April 1918, in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 64, and was buried in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
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from the Middle English and Old French personal name Perceval, first found as the name of the hero of an epic poem by the 12th-century French poet Crestien de Troyes, describing the quest for the holy grail. The origin of the name is uncertain; it may be associated with the Gaulish personal name Pritorīx or it may be an altered form of the Celtic name Peredur (see Priddy ). It seems to have been altered as the result of folk etymological association with Old French perce(r) ‘to pierce or breach’ + val ‘valley’.
(of Norman origin): habitational name from either of two places called Perceval in Calvados, Normandy (France).
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