When Lisa Yale was born on 17 September 1961, in Keller, Tarrant, Texas, United States, her father, Richard Michael Yale Jr, was 19 and her mother, Glenda Jo Fester, was 18. She died on 17 September 1961, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Bourland Cemetery, Keller, Tarrant, Texas, United States.
Welsh (Shropshire and Staffordshire): habitational name from Yale, in the lordship of Bromham and Yale (Denbighshire), itself from Welsh iâl, apparently meaning ‘unproductive land, wasteland, wilderness’.
History: Yale University in New Haven, CT, takes its name from an early benefactor, Elihu Yale (1649–1721), an officer of the British East India Company who rose to become governor of Madras Presidency, before being dismissed for corruption. He was born in Boston and his family came from Plas-Gronow near Wrexham, Denbighshire; his father, David Yale, had settled in NH in 1637.
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