When English Ernest Martin was born on 23 February 1892, in Patrick, Virginia, United States, his father, Robert Fountain Martin, was 35 and his mother, Martha Jane Rakes, was 33. He married Nettie Elva Williams in December 1919, in Patrick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Dan River, Patrick, Virginia, United States in 1900 and Premier, McDowell, West Virginia, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 14 October 1930, in Slab Fork District, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Stuart, Patrick, Virginia, 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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