When Dennis Malpass was born on 29 June 1822, in Cam, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Daniel Malpass, was 24 and his mother, Mary Hill, was 24. He married Charlotte Amelia Smith about 1847, in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Burwash, Sussex, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. In 1871, at the age of 49, his occupation is listed as haurlier. He died on 27 September 1889, in Barton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 67.
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English (Staffordshire and Gloucestershire): habitational name, chiefly from either of two places called Malpas (Cheshire, England and Monmouthshire, Wales); perhaps also occasionally from other minor places so called in England (e.g. in Berkshire, Cornwall, and Yorkshire) or from various places called Malpas or Maupas in France. The placenames derive from Old French mal ‘bad’ + pas ‘passage’.
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