When James Moir Martin was born on 15 December 1887, in Patrick, Virginia, United States, his father, Robert Fountain Martin, was 31 and his mother, Martha Jane Rakes, was 28. He married Gertie Bowman about 1910, in Patrick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 9 daughters. He lived in Slab Fork District, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States in 1930 and Leaksville Township, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 4 May 1950, in Martinsville, Henry, Virginia, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Eden, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States.
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English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
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