Timothy John Cheney

Male17 April 1956–23 October 2010

Brief Life History of Timothy John

When Timothy John Cheney was born on 17 April 1956, in Lynwood, Los Angeles, California, United States, his father, Arthur Erroll Cheney, was 43 and his mother, Virginia Helen Davis, was 32. He died on 23 October 2010, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 54.

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Family Time Line

Arthur Erroll Cheney
1912–1965
Virginia Helen Davis
1923–2007
Michael Charles CHENEY
1946–1996
Timothy John Cheney
1956–2010

Sources (2)

  • Timothy J Cheney, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"
  • Timothy John Cheney, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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Siblings (2)

World Events (8)

1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space

Age 2

Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.

1960

Age 4

Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.

1971 · The Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Age 15

The Twenty-sixth Amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens who are eighteen years old or older.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Chaney with the same etymology as in 2 below.

French: topographic name for someone who lived by or in an oak wood, from Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’ (from chesne ‘oak’), or a habitational name from any of several places called (Le) Cheney, e.g. in Haute-Savoie, named with this word. Compare Chesney .

French Canadian: altered form of French Chesnay or Chenay, topographic names with the same meaning and etymology as in 2 above, or habitational names from (Le) Chesnay or (Le) Chenay, names of several places in the northwestern part of France, based on Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’. Compare Chenette and Chenier 2.

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

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