When Paul Chester Hall was born on 8 December 1914, in North Carolina, United States, his father, William Ernest Hall, was 40 and his mother, Elnora Williams, was 39. He had at least 1 son with Myrtle Lee Hendricks. He lived in Youngsville Township, Franklin, North Carolina, United States for about 56 years. He died on 23 March 1976, in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Flat Rock Baptist Church Cemetery, Louisburg, Franklin, North Carolina, United States.
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
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