When John Withers Uren was born in 1866, in Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Withers Uren III, was 34 and his mother, Isabella Lowes, was 35. He lived in North Oxford Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 7 December 1952, in Robertsdale, Baldwin, Alabama, United States, at the age of 86.
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1832–1867 Male
1831–1902 Female
1857–1927 Male
1862–1877 Male
1866–1952 Male
English (of Norman origin, mostly in Cornwall): from the Old French personal name Ev(e)rin, Eurin, either a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Ever- (from the Germanic word for ‘boar’), such as Everard and Everwin (see Erwin ), or an alternative pronunciation of Everwin as /ju:rin/. In Cornwall this name would easily have been confused with the Breton personal name and surname in 2 below.
Cornish (of Breton origin) and Welsh: from the Breton and Welsh personal name Ur(i)en (ultimately from British Celtic ōrbo- perhaps ‘orphan, heir’ + gen- ‘born’). There is evidence for use of the Breton personal name in at least one Anglo-Norman family in Cheshire but in Cornwall it belonged initially, at least, to 16th-century Breton migrants, some of whom also bore it as a surname.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, so named from the definite singular form of ur, from Old Norse urth ‘scree, rock-strewn slope’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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