When Herbert Hayler was born about May 1903, in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, his father, Edwin Hayler, was 37 and his mother, Alice Georgina Cassell, was 32. He lived in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 16 February 1985, in Fulham, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 81.
English: (i) locative name from Middle English haler, denoting someone who lived in a nook of land, i.e. a remote valley or secluded spot. Thus, the name is equivalent to Middle English atte Hale ‘(dweller) at the nook’; see Attale . Names of this type, composed of a topographical term + the suffix -er, are particularly frequent in Sussex, Hants, Surrey, and Kent. (ii) occupational name from Middle English heyler ‘roofer’, a variant of Heller . For other examples, see Hiller .
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