When Miriam Callender was born about 1848, in Hinds, Mississippi, United States, her father, Alexander Washington Callender, was 27 and her mother, Lucinda Heath, was 22. She died before 1850, in her hometown.
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1822–1851 Male
1827–1873 Female
1842–1879 Female
1843–1850 Female
1845–1878 Male
1845–1874 Male
1848–1850 Female
English: occupational name from Middle English calendre, c(h)alaundrer, kelendrer (Old French calendrier, calendreur) denoting a person who calenders cloth, that is, someone who passes freshly woven cloth between heavy rollers to compress the weave.
Scottish: variant of Callander .
In some cases possibly also an Americanized form of German Kolander .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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