When William Rolfe was born in 1797, in Stone, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Rolfe, was 37 and his mother, Ann Buckland, was 36. He married Susanna Keen on 24 December 1818, in Quainton, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Dinton, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English and Anglo-Norman French personal name Rolf, Roulf, Rou, Roul, Rouf, Rof. Its usual derivation is from Old Norse Hrólfr, Rolf, from ancient Germanic hrōd ‘fame, renown’ + wulf ‘wolf’, and occasionally from ancient Germanic Rodulf, of the same origin as Hrólfr (earlier Hróthúlfr) but in a West Frankish form, which the Scandinavian Normans occasionally used. The name was also common in Normandy where it became Old French Roul, Rou, often Latinized as Rollo. See Ralph and compare Rowe , Dow , and Rowson .
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