Mary Alice Faunce

Brief Life History of Mary Alice

When Mary Alice Faunce was born on 7 July 1871, in Cumberland, Illinois, United States, her father, Noah Moody Faunce, was 20 and her mother, Hannah Catherine Remer, was 19. She married Alvin Thomas Byrne Sr on 23 March 1890, in Montrose, Effingham, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Mill Shoals, White, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Töv, Mongolia in 1910. She died on 18 January 1954, in Broadwell, Logan, Illinois, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Lincoln, Logan, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alvin Thomas Byrne Sr
1866–1945
Mary Alice Faunce
1871–1954
Marriage: 23 March 1890
William Myler Byrne
1896–1945
Blanche Grace Byrne
1898–1992
Alvin Thomas Byrne Jr
1899–1945
Golda Nancy Byrne
1901–1998

Sources (13)

  • M Alice Byrne, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Mary Faunce Byrne in entry for Alvin Thomas Byrne, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Alice Byrne in household of A T Byrne, "United States Census, 1900"

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Name Meaning

English: nickname from Middle English faun, foun (Old French faon, foun) with genitival or, more likely, post-medieval excrescent -s, meaning ‘cub, young animal, young fallow deer’, perhaps for a lively, frisky youth. The same word was occasionally used as a personal name.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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