Brief Life History of Myrtle
When Myrtle Durant was born on 2 March 1887, in Sonora Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, John Thomas Durant, was 34 and her mother, Caroline Elizabeth Wilson, was 29. She married Claude Robert Thomas on 19 January 1942, in Bowling Green, Pike, Missouri, United States. She lived in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1930. She died on 3 September 1975, at the age of 88.
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- Myrtle Durant in household of Charles E Penrod, "United States Census, 1930"
- Durant, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Mrs Myrtle Thomas in entry for Mr Martin Durant, "Illinois, Mildred Hooper Obituary Collection, ca. 1959-1981"
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1892 · The Chicago Canal
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1910 · The BSA is Made
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Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: variant of Durand .
English: variant of Darwent, a habitational name from Derwent in Derbyshire (now submerged by the Ladybower Reservoir) or Darwen in Lancashire, both named from rivers called Derwent, or, less frequently, from similarly named rivers in Cumbria, Durham, Northumbria, and Yorkshire, from a Celtic river name meaning ‘river where oak-trees grow abundantly’.
Altered form of French Doiron .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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