When Stanley James Cornell was born in 1902, in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, his father, Barnabas Cornell, was 43 and his mother, Sarah Jarvis, was 38. He died on 30 October 1981, in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, at the age of 79, and was buried in Saffron Walden, Essex, England.
English: shortened form of Cornwell , Cornwall , or of Cornhill, a habitational name from a place in Northumberland named Cornhill, from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + halh ‘nook, recess’; or from Cornhill in London, a medieval grain exchange, named with Old English corn ‘corn, grain’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from some other place elsewhere similarly named.
English: variant of Corney .
English: possibly also a nickname from French corneille ‘rook, crow’, probably denoting a chatterer or someone with dark hair or a dark complexion.
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