Brief Life History of Susan
When Susan Giles was born on 22 May 1822, in Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Edward Giles, was 31 and her mother, Catherine Rowland, was 40. She had at least 1 daughter.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Susan Giles, "Wales Births and Baptisms, 1541-1907"
Spouse and Children
Parents and Siblings
1790–1867 Male
1782–1840 Female
Siblings (8)
1815–1816 Female
1816– Female
1818–1842 Male
1819– Male
1820– Male
+3 More Children
World Events (7)
1823
Age 1
1831 · Merthyr Uprising
Age 9
1867 · Great Reform Act of 1867
Age 45
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, Middle English Giles or Gile, a borrowing from Old French Gil(l)e(s). This is from Latin Aegidius and this presumably from Greek aigidion ‘kid, young goat’ (alternatively, it could be a Late Latin formation from the Latin personal name Eggius + the suffix -idius). The personal name was widely used in France and the Low Countries, partly through veneration of Saint Gilles de Provence, supposedly a hermit of the 7th century near Arles; he was patron saint of cripples, hence the dedication of Saint Giles Cripplegate in London, though the personal name itself was less common in England than elsewhere in Europe. See also Gilles .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name based on glas ‘green, blue, gray’.
French: variant of Gilles , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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