When Elizabeth Champlin was born on 21 November 1769, in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Christopher Champlin, was 38 and her mother, Margaret Grant, was 26. She had at least 2 sons and 6 daughters with John Coffin Jones I. She died on 12 November 1837, at the age of 67.
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English (of Norman origin): from Anglo-Norman French Campelin, Champelin, occasionally C(h)ample(i)n and C(h)ampel(i)on, perhaps A habitational name denoting a man from any of the places in Normandy and Picardy named with Latin campelli ‘little fields’, such as Campeaux (Calvados, Oise) or (Les) Champeaux (Manche, Orne). In Yorkshire, Camplin may have been confused with Campion .
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