When Matilda Cornwell was born on 22 October 1875, in Balaklava, South Australia, Australia, her father, Peter Cornwell, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Graham, was 31. She died in 1948, at the age of 73.
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English:
habitational name from Cornwell in Oxfordshire, named from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.
variant of Cornwall or Cornhill; in southeastern England mainly a habitational name from Cornhill in London but elsewhere alternatively from Cornhill (Northumberland) or one of the many minor places so called, often becoming Cornell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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