When Mary Snell was born on 10 December 1888, in Hullett Township, Huron, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Snell, was 34 and her mother, Jane Elcoat, was 34. She lived in Huron, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died in 1970, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 82, and was buried in Bluewater, Huron, Ontario, Canada.
English: nickname for a quick, lively, or courageous person, from Middle English snel(l) ‘swift, vivacious, brisk, bold’ (Old English snel(l), Old Norse snjallr). See also Sneller , Snelling .
English: from the Middle English personal name Snel(l) (Old English Snell, Old Norse Snjallr, with the same origins as the nickname above).
Americanized form of German Schnell ‘quick’.
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