When Elijah Malin Sr. was born on 1 February 1774, in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Thomas Malin Jr, was 40 and his mother, Hannah Griffith, was 41. He married Catherine Essick on 19 March 1799, in Vincent Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 2 October 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English: from the Middle English female personal name Malin, a diminutive of Mall or Mald (Maud). See Mall and compare Mallinson and Maude 2.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Male (a back-formation from Malka as if it contained the Slavic diminutive suffix -ke), with the addition of the Slavic possessive suffix -in.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Malin, a place in Ukraine.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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