When William Rolfe was born on 19 September 1804, in Oxborough, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Rolfe, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Durrant, was 33. He married Frances Barleycorn on 7 February 1854, in Maneroo District, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 3 February 1864, at the age of 59, and was buried in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia.
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English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English and Anglo-Norman French personal name Rolf, Roulf, Rou, Roul, Rouf, Rof. Its usual derivation is from Old Norse Hrólfr, Rolf, from ancient Germanic hrōd ‘fame, renown’ + wulf ‘wolf’, and occasionally from ancient Germanic Rodulf, of the same origin as Hrólfr (earlier Hróthúlfr) but in a West Frankish form, which the Scandinavian Normans occasionally used. The name was also common in Normandy where it became Old French Roul, Rou, often Latinized as Rollo. See Ralph and compare Rowe , Dow , and Rowson .
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