When Mary Penn was born on 7 May 1790, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States, her father, Richard Penn, was 22 and her mother, Catherine Moulder, was 28. She married Thomas Andrew Hopper in 1813, in Grainger, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Marshall, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died on 4 September 1875, in Farmington, Marshall, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Hopper Cemetery, Laws Hill, Marshall, Tennessee, United States.
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English: habitational name from either of two places called Penn (in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire), both of which are named with Brittonic penn ‘head’, often used in hill-names.
English: topographic name or metonymic occupational name from Middle English pen(n) ‘enclosure, animal pen, fold’ (Old English penn), for someone who lived by or worked at a fold. Examples of this surname are formally difficult to distinguish from those in 1 above.
English: from a pet form of the female personal name Pernel, see Parnell .
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