When Sarah Cornell was born in 1716, in Hempstead Town, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, William Cornell, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth Smith, was 26. She died about 1800, at the age of 85.
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English: shortened form of Cornwell , Cornwall , or of Cornhill, a habitational name from a place in Northumberland named Cornhill, from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + halh ‘nook, recess’; or from Cornhill in London, a medieval grain exchange, named with Old English corn ‘corn, grain’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from some other place elsewhere similarly named.
English: variant of Corney .
English: possibly also a nickname from French corneille ‘rook, crow’, probably denoting a chatterer or someone with dark hair or a dark complexion.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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