When Bernard Mitchell was born in 1888, in County Sligo, Ireland, his father, Charles Mitchell, was 41 and his mother, Catherine Cairns Mitchell, was 41. He had at least 1 son with Julia Oneill. He died in 1978, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 90.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
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