When Margaret Sandell was born in 1556, in Basildon, Essex, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Sandell, was 31 and her mother, Thomasine Lake, was 31. She married Roger Dowe about 1571, in Basildon, Essex, England, United Kingdom.
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Nils, Anders, Thor.
Swedish: ornamental name from sand ‘sand’ + the suffix -ell, a derivative of the Latin adjectival ending -elius. The original humanistic form of the surname, Sandelius, is still common in Sweden.
English: from Middle English sand ‘sand’ + hil(le), hul(le) ‘hill’ or helde, hilde, hulde ‘slope’. The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on or near a sandy hill or sandy slope, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Sandhill, in Worth (Sussex) or Sandhill, in East Grinstead (Sussex).
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