Brief Life History of John Trelawny
When John Trelawny James was born on 25 December 1891, in Feock, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Henry James, was 36 and his mother, Catherine 'Kate' Williams, was 33. He married Milly Bunney on 26 July 1924, in New York City, New York, United States. He lived in Detroit Ward 8, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1950. He died on 4 January 1968, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 76, and was buried in Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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- John T James, "United States Census, 1930"
- John Trelawny James, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- John T James in the New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018
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Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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