Brief Life History of Isaac
Isaac Adams was born in March 1762, in Tiverton, Devon, England, United Kingdom. He married Jane Widgery on 26 April 1788. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died in January 1807, in his hometown, at the age of 44, and was buried in Tiverton, Devon, England, United Kingdom.
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- Essex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1918
- Devon, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
- England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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