When Sara Gunnell Maughan was born on 25 November 1923, in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, Elmer Nibley Maughan, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Veda Brown Gunnell, was 38. She married Clark Jackson Obray on 5 June 1942, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. She lived in Wellsville Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1940 and Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States for about 1 years. She died on 13 June 2007, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Paradise Cemetery, Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States.
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English: from the Middle English female personal name Gunnild (Old Norse Gunnhildr), from gunnr + hildr, both elements meaning ‘battle’. This was a popular name in those parts of England that were under Scandinavian influence in the Middle Ages.
Irish (Tipperary): shortened Anglicized form of Mag Congail, a Donegal name more often Anglicized as McGonigle .
Americanized form of German Günnel: from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal names Gundram (see Gundrum) or Gundlach .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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