When Cornelia Jane Cairns was born on 16 June 1851, in Muskingum, Ohio, United States, her father, Robert Careins, was 30 and her mother, Mary Ann Haynes, was 25. She died on 24 October 1856, in her hometown, at the age of 5, and was buried in Norwich, Muskingum, Ohio, United States.
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Scottish (southern): habitational name from the lands of Cairns in Mid Calder (Midlothian).
Irish (Down, Antrim, and Tyrone): in the north of Ireland, there may have been confusion between the Scottish surname and Irish Ó Ciaráin, Anglicized as Kieran and Kearns .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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