Brief Life History of Franklin
When Franklin was born on 12 May 1928, in Cleveland, Emery, Utah, United States, his father, John Roy Franklin, was 34 and his mother, Ada Shurtz, was 24. He died on 12 May 1928, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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- Infant Franklin, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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Name Meaning
English: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman, freeholder, land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general, he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, such as Frankel .
History: The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated c. 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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