When Emma Fountain was born on 3 October 1850, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, David Fountain, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Impey, was 28. She married Charles Ward on 11 October 1870, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. She died on 18 August 1884, in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 33.
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English (of Norman origin): from one or more of the places in France named Fontaine, Fonteyne, or Lafontaine (see Fontaine ).
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a spring or well, from Middle English fontayne (Old French fontaine) ‘spring, fountain’, sometimes with a plural -s, and synonymous with Well , of which Fountain(es) may sometimes have been a translation.
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