When John Parmenter Manning was born on 14 November 1800, in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States, his father, John Manning, was 26 and his mother, Lois Parmenter, was 23. He died on 22 January 1801, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in West Townsend, Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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Irish (Cork and Kerry): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Mainnín ‘descendant of Mainnín’, probably an assimilated form of Mainchín, a diminutive of manach ‘monk’. This is the name of a chieftain family in Connacht. It is sometimes pronounced Ó Maingín and Anglicized as Mangan .
English: from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Manning.
North German and Dutch: habitational name from a farm so named, once in possession of a certain Manno (see Mann 2) and his kin.
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