When Dr John Tomline Walsh was born on 15 February 1816, in Hanover, Virginia, United States, his father, William Walsh Jr, was 26 and his mother, Susan M. Higgason, was 22. He married Eliza Ann Beazley on 2 June 1838, in Essex, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Kinston, Lenoir, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died on 6 August 1886, at the age of 70, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Kinston, Lenoir, North Carolina, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Dermot, John Patrick, Kieran, Declan, Eamonn, Colm, Donal, Seamus, Siobhan, Brennan.
English and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English walshe (Old English wælisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’. This form of the name was generally more common than Welsh , especially in Ireland, where it originally denoted a Welsh-speaking immigrant, in particular any of the Welshmen who arrived in the wake of Strongbow's Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170. In Ireland it is sometimes also a translation of Breathnach ‘Briton’.
English: in Yorkshire and Lancashire the name is sometimes a shortened form of Walshaw .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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