When James Withers Payne was born on 26 December 1818, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States, his father, Francis Payne, was 37 and his mother, Martha Patsy Withers Payne, was 29. He married Elizabeth Welch Holtzclaw on 6 August 1841, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 2 April 1867, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States, at the age of 48.
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English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pai(e)n, Pagen (from Latin Paganus), a fairly common personal name among Normans. It derived from a word that originally meant ‘villager, rustic’, later ‘heathen’, but it had doubtless lost these connotations in its use as a late medieval personal name. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
History: Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. See also Paine .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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