When Lois Cornwall was born on 8 February 1701, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, her father, William Cornwall, was 29 and her mother, Esther Ward, was 28. She married Daniel Collins on 15 May 1715, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. She died on 4 January 1768, in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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English:
habitational name from the county of Cornwall, which is named with the Old English tribal name Cornwealas. This is from Kernow (the term that the Cornish used to refer to themselves, a word of uncertain etymology, perhaps connected with a Celtic element meaning ‘horn, headland’), + Old English wealas ‘strangers, foreigners’, the term used by the Anglo-Saxons for British-speaking people.
variant of Cornwell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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