When John Steven Cole was born on 15 September 1852, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Oliver Davis Cole, was 39 and his mother, Mary Davis, was 38. He married Ellen Maria Barber on 5 May 1886, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Washington, Rhode Island, United States in 1920. He died on 25 June 1933, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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