Brief Life History of John
John Buckley was born about 1750, in Maryland, United States. He married Sarah Spence in 1762, in Delaware, United States. He died in 1824, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 75.
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- John Buckley, "United States Census, 1820"
- Hannah Hall Buckley in the Family Data Collection
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
Maryland is the 7th state.
1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places so named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck, male deer’ or bucca ‘he-goat’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.
English: in Somerset perhaps alternatively, a variant of the now extinct Bugley, a habitational name from Bugley in Dorset or Wiltshire, named from the Old English female personal name Bucge + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’, a byname meaning ‘cowherd, servant’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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