When Joseph Tallen was born in 1883, in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, his father, Patrick Tallen, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Dalton, was 42.
English:
variant of Tallon + excrescent -t.
habitational name from Talland (Cornwall). The placename denotes ‘church site on the hill-brow’, from Middle Cornish tal ‘brow, front, end’ + lann ‘enclosed cemetery, church’.
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