Brief Life History of Thomas
Thomas Moses was born about 1850, in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom. He had at least 4 sons with Sarah Evans. He lived in Brynmawr, Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1871 and Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1881. He died about 1910, at the age of 62.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Thomas Moses in household of William Mears, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- Thomas Moses, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
Spouse and Children
1850–1910 Male
1847–1913 Female
Children (4)
1871–1871 Male
1872– Male
1876–1939 Male
1883– Male
World Events (6)
1850 · Coal Fields in South Wales Developed
Age 0
1867 · Great Reform Act of 1867
Age 17
1884
Age 34
Name Meaning
Jewish, Welsh, African American, and African (mainly Nigeria): from the Biblical personal name borne by the Israelite leader who led the Israelites out of Egypt, as related in the Book of Exodus. The Hebrew form of the name is Moshe . It is probably of Egyptian origin, from a short form of an ancient Egyptian personal name such as Rameses or Tutmosis, meaning ‘conceived (by a god)’. However, very early in its history the name acquired a folk etymology, being taken as a derivative of the Hebrew root verb mshh ‘extract or draw (something), e.g. from water’ and was associated with a story of the infant Moses being discovered among the bullrushes by Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus 2: 1-10). As a Welsh surname, it was adopted among Dissenter families in the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, for example Italian Moise , Hungarian Mózes (see Mozes ), Assyrian/Chaldean Moshe , Arabic Musa .
English: variant of Moss , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: variant of Moyses, a Cornish personal name derived from Middle English Moises, a vernacular form of Moses (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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