When Herbert Mostyn was born in 1904, in Molong, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Isaac Lewis Mostyn, was 40 and his mother, Martha McLachlan, was 30. He died on 2 November 1957, in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 53.
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Welsh and English: habitational name from Mostyn in Flintshire, Wales, the name of which is derived from Old English mos ‘bog’ + tūn ‘farm, village’.
History: This surname was adopted by a 16th-century Lord of Mostyn, Thomas ap Richard ap Hywel, and his brother Piers.
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