When Elinor Shimmin was born on 1 December 1757, in German, Isle of Man, her father, John Shimmin, was 22 and her mother, Elinor Cross, was 15. She married John Christian on 27 June 1778, in German, Isle of Man. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 8 February 1838, in her hometown, at the age of 80, and was buried in German, Isle of Man.
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"""The Statute Laws of the Isle of Man"" by C. Briscoe are published."
Census gave Island population of 40,081.
Potato riots caused by imposition of tithes.
Manx (Isle of Man): from a shortened form of Gaelic mac ‘son of’ + the Old Norse personal name Sigmundr (from sigr ‘victory’ + mundr ‘hand; bride-price’), usually rendered as Simon(d) in the later medieval period.
English: nickname apparently from an unrecorded Middle English shiming (Old English sciming) ‘bright, attractive person’, a derivative of the Old English root scim- ‘shine’ (compare the verb shimmer) + the noun-forming suffix -ing. The word may also have been used as a personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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