When Kate Gill was born in 1877, in Orwell, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Daniel Gill, was 35 and her mother, Caroline Willmot, was 31. She died in 1891, in her hometown, at the age of 14.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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Some characteristic forenames: Indian Avtar, Amritpal, Darshan, Hardip, Nirmal, Sohan, Ajit, Balwinder, Charan, Jasvir, Kewal, Navdeep.
English and Scottish: in northern England and Scotland sometimes from Middle English Gille, Old Norse Gilli, which is of Irish (Gaelic) origin (see below), and pronounced with a hard g. As a personal name it is not found after c. 1200.
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English gille ‘deep glen, ravine’ (Old Norse (Norwegian) gil), pronounced with a hard g. The term is found mainly in northwestern England, where Norwegian Vikings settled.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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