When William Sidney Pappin was born in 1896, his father, Peter Pappin, was 43 and his mother, Catherine Jane Lavalley, was 38. He died in 1897, at the age of 1.
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English (Cornwall): possibly French, from Occitan papon ‘ancestor’, or perhaps a variant of Papin, from French papin ‘gruel’, a suffixed derivative of paper ‘to chomp’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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