Brief Life History of Rowland
When Rowland Plunkett was born about 1407, in Killeen, County Meath, Ireland, his father, Sir Christopher Plunkett, was 38 and his mother, Genet aka Joan Cusack 6th Lady of Killeen, was 38. He had at least 1 son. He died after 1461.
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English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a metathesized form of Plouquenet in Ille-et-Villaine, Brittany, so named from Breton plou ‘parish’ (from Latin plebs ‘people’) + Guenec, the personal name (a diminutive of guen ‘white’) of a somewhat obscure saint. As an Irish name, it has been Gaelicized as Pluincéid.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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