When Thomas Victor Haines was born on 8 May 1873, in Kinnitty, County Offaly, Ireland, his father, Joseph Henry Haines, was 31 and his mother, Mary Anne Nixon, was 32. He married Georgina Emily Aldritt on 23 June 1897, in Inchicore South, St Jude's, County Dublin, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Kearny, Hudson, New Jersey, United States in 1930 and Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1940. He died on 11 August 1944, in New Jersey, United States, at the age of 71.
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English (southern) and Irish (Cork): variant of Haynes .
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