James Milton Henry

Brief Life History of James Milton

When James Milton Henry was born about 1842, in Gwinnett, Georgia, United States, his father, Mathew Henry, was 44 and his mother, Phoebe Josephine Lee, was 34. He died on 15 March 1864, in Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 23.

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Family Time Line

Mathew Henry
1799–1863
Phoebe Josephine Lee
1810–1850
Rebeca Jane Henry
1829–
James Milton Henry
1842–1864
Sarah Francis Henry
1845–
E U Henry
1830–
Mary E Henry
1832–
Martha H Henry
1834–
William Perry Henry
1834–1913
Zacaharia Lee Henry
1835–1916
John Washington Henry
1839–1908
Clara Ann Henry
1847–1919

Sources (1)

  • James Henry, "United States Census, 1860"

World Events (5)

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1854 · The Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.

Name Meaning

English, French, Walloon, and West Indian (mainly Jamaica and Haiti): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements haim, heim ‘home’ + rīc ‘power, ruler’, introduced to England by the Normans in the form Henri. During the Middle Ages this name became enormously popular in England and was borne by eight kings. Continental forms of the personal name were equally popular throughout Europe. In the period in which the majority of English surnames were formed, a common English vernacular form of the name was Harry, hence the surnames Harris (southern) and Harrison (northern). Official documents of the period normally used the Latinized form Henricus. In medieval times, English Henry absorbed an originally distinct Old English personal name that had hagan ‘hawthorn’ (compare Hain 2) as its first element, and there has also been confusion with Amery. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. German Heinrich , and also their derivatives, e.g. Swedish Henriksson (see Henrikson ). Compare Henri .

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hInnéirghe ‘descendant of Innéirghe’, a byname based on éirghe ‘arising’.

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Éinrí or Mac Einri, patronymics from the personal names Éinrí, Einri, Irish forms of Henry. It is also found as a variant of McEnery .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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