May Lewis

Brief Life History of May

When May Lewis was born in 1815, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, William Lewis, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Thomas, was 21. She died on 5 March 1816, in her hometown, at the age of 1.

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William Lewis
1791–1874
Margaret Thomas
1794–
Anne Lewis
1812–
John Lewis
May Lewis
1815–1816
Lewis Lewis
1816–1824
David Lewis
1821–1824
Thomas Lewis
1822–1822
John Lewis
1824–1836
Thomas Lewis
1824–1900
Mary Lewis
1824–
David Lewis
1825–
Elizabeth Lewis
1826–
David Lewis
1826–
Charlotte Lewis
1826–
William William Lewis
1833–
Thomas E. Lewis
1836–1906

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    1815

    The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

    Name Meaning

    English: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Lewis, Leweis, Lowis, from ancient Germanic (originally West Frankish) Hludwig (itself from hlōd- ‘fame, famous’ + wīg- ‘battle’). This was Latinized as Ludovicus and Chlodovisus, which were gallicized as Clovis or Clouis, French Louis. The name may also appear as Lawis, Laweys, Lawes, by unrounding of the vowel of Lowis on the analogy of the variation between Low and Law as pet forms of Middle English Lourence alias Laurence. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Laws 2 and compare Lawrence .

    Welsh: adopted for the Welsh personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn ).

    Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’, which was the name of a Celtic god.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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