When Earnest Plunkett was born on 27 June 1889, in Georgia, United States, his father, David Filmore Plunkett, was 30 and his mother, Mary Spratling Butler, was 31. He died on 15 September 1889, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Rock Springs Church, Fulton, Georgia, United States.
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English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a metathesized form of Plouquenet in Ille-et-Villaine, Brittany, so named from Breton plou ‘parish’ (from Latin plebs ‘people’) + Guenec, the personal name (a diminutive of guen ‘white’) of a somewhat obscure saint. As an Irish name, it has been Gaelicized as Pluincéid.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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