When William Dann was born about 1855, in Hellingly, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Urban Dann, was 29 and his mother, Mary Matilda Terry, was 32.
English: topographic name from Middle English dene ‘valley’ (Old English denu), which is often found as dane in placenames in Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Kent, and Sussex. Compare Dean .
English: perhaps from a pet form of the Middle English personal name Daniel .
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a pine tree, from Old High German tanna ‘pine tree’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
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