When Nancy Lou Pope Kirkham Hahn was born on 26 May 1943, in Mount Airy, Carroll, Maryland, United States, her father, Charles Henry Pope, was 25 and her mother, Martha Evelyn Gartrell Pope Clay, was 21. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Edward Fletcher Kirkham. She died on 13 June 2011, in New Tazewell, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 68.
English: nickname from Middle English pope (derived via Old English from Late Latin papa ‘bishop, pope’, from Greek pappas ‘father’, in origin a nursery word.) In the early Christian Church, the Latin term was at first used as a title of respect for male clergy of every rank, but in the Western Church it gradually came to be restricted to bishops, and then only to the bishop of Rome; in the Eastern Church it continued to be used of all priests (see Popov , Papas ). The nickname would have been used for a vain or pompous man, or for someone who had played the part of the pope in a pageant or play. The surname is also present in Ireland and Scotland.
North German: variant of Poppe .
German: translation of Pabst .
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