Brief Life History of Edna Francis
When Edna Francis York was born on 28 September 1870, in Marshall, Kentucky, United States, her father, Chesterfield Marion York, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Jane Hiett, was 28. She had at least 4 sons and 4 daughters with William Worth Henson. She lived in Benton, Marshall, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 5, Marshall, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 1 April 1907, in Marshall, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Benton, Marshall, Kentucky, United States.
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- Edna Francis York in household of Dick York, "United States Census, 1880"
- Edna F Henson, "Find A Grave Index"
- Edna York in entry for A L Cope and Eva Henson, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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