When Joseph Fitz Randolph was born on 1 July 1817, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Ichabod Fitz Randolph, was 56 and his mother, Margaret Liggett, was 45. He married Mary L. Jones on 19 April 1839, in Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Marion Township, Doniphan, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Atchison, Kansas, United States in 1895. He died on 9 November 1903, in Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States.
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English and German: from Randolf, an ancient Germanic personal name composed of the elements rand ‘rim (of a shield), shield’ + wolf ‘wolf’. This was introduced into England by the Normans in Old French forms of two different ancient Germanic personal names which became confused with each other: Randulf (from rand ‘(shield-)edge’ + wulf ‘wolf’) and Rannulf (from hraf(a)n ‘raven’ + wulf ‘wolf’).
History: An American family bearing this surname are descended from William Randolph (c. 1651–1711), a planter and merchant, a member of a family that originally came from Sussex, England. William Randolph emigrated from Warwickshire to VA c. 1673. He was a forebear of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee. Randolph had seven sons, each of whom inherited an estate, the name of which was sometimes added to their own, such as Sir John Randolph of Tazewell. His great-grandsons included Edmund Randolph (1753–1813), first attorney general of the US and one of the framers of the US Constitution, and the diplomat and statesman John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), who served as US minister to Russia.
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