When Margaret Acomb was born in November 1893, in Penketh, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Willis Harwood Acomb, was 40 and her mother, Jane Phillimore, was 36.
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English (northern):
topographic name for a dweller in a valley, from Middle English atte combe ‘at the valley’ (Old English æt thǣm cumbe).
habitational name from any of the places in Northumberland, and West and North Yorkshire named Acomb, from Old English æt ācum ‘at the oak trees’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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