When Robert Warren was born before 5 October 1741, in Empingham, Rutland, England, his father, John Warren, was 43 and his mother, Susannah Douthat, was 38. He married Anne Brittain on 20 November 1770, in Kirkby Underwood, Lincolnshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died before 11 August 1785, in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, and was buried in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Athelstan, king of Wessex and Mercia, formed the Kingdom of England.
Viking raiders from Scandinavia invaded England in 980. Years later in 991, the English government paid them 10,000 in hopes for peace. The Viking raiders, however, continued to force more money from England.
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Warin, Werin, a borrowing of ancient Germanic Warino, a short form of various compound names based on the element warin ‘protection, shelter’ or ‘guard’. Compare Waring .
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from La Varrenne in Seine-Maritime, France, named with a Gaulish element probably descriptive of alluvial land or sandy soil. This was the name of a major Norman family after the Conquest. In Ireland, this name has been Gaelicized as Bharain.
Irish: adopted as an English form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane , Warner ).
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