Brief Life History of Adam Billings
When Adam Billings Kern, Sr was born on 2 June 1762, in Rowan, North Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, Leonard Conrad Kern, was 30 and his mother, Mary Magdaline Billings, was 26. He married Mary Lay in 1785, in Iredell, North Carolina, United States. He died on 24 May 1838, in Stanford, Van Buren Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Harmony Cemetery, Bloomington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (23)
- 1830 United States Federal Census
- Family Data Collection - Births
- Adam Kern, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
Spouse and Children
1762–1838 Male
1762–1818 Female
Children (11)
1786–1858 Male
1789–1824 Female
1791–1846 Male
1792–1876 Male
1794–1820 Female
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Parents and Siblings
1732–1812 Male
1736–1803 Female
Siblings (13)
1760–1831 Female
1760– Male
1762–1838 Male
1764– Male
1764– Female
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World Events (8)
1767 · Tryon Palace
Age 5
1776
Age 14
1783 · A Free America
Age 21
Name Meaning
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kerne ‘kernel, seed, pip’; Middle Dutch kern(e), keerne; German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a farmer, or a nickname for a physically small person. As a Jewish surname, it is mainly artificial.
English (southeastern): metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of milk churns, from Middle English kern, kirn, kurn, a side-form of chern ‘churn’. Compare Church .
Slovenian: nickname for a stunted person, from an old spelling of krn ‘stunted’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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