When Hannah Wall was born on 22 January 1744, in Horsley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Wall, was 25 and her mother, Mary Wild, was 14. She married Abraham Kittrell on 30 July 1766, in Horsley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stone-built wall, e.g. one used to fortify a town or to keep back the encroachment of the sea (Middle English wall ‘wall’, Old English wall, weall, from Latin vallum ‘rampart, palisade’), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Wall (Staffordshire).
English (West Midlands): topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, northern Middle English wall(e) (Old English (Mercian) wæll(a); compare Well ).
Irish (of Norman origin): Anglicized form of de Valle (Gaelicized form de Bhál), the name of a Norman family established in Munster and Connacht.
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