When Francis Asbury Fitzpatrick was born on 18 December 1854, in Hutton Township, Coles, Illinois, United States, his father, Samuel Iota Fitzpatrick, was 46 and his mother, Deborah Ann Bodkin, was 40. He married Emma Elizabeth Stevens on 31 December 1874, in Edgar, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Lafayette Township, Coles, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Township, Apac, Northern, Uganda in 1925. He died on 16 July 1925, in Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Dodge Grove Cemetery, Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1861: Coles, Illinois, United States
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Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Kieran, Declan, Ronan, Liam, Seamus, Sinead, Siobhan, Aileen, Bridie, Brigid, Conan.
Irish: occasionally this may be a genuine Anglo-Norman French patronymic meaning ‘son of Patrick ’, but more often it has been adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Pádraig, ‘son of the servant (i.e. devotee) of (Saint) Patrick’ (see Kilpatrick ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesAccording to Robert Fitzpatrick, Francis died on July 19,1925 of a hemorrage at the Sylvanus Doty Farm located southwest of Charleston Illinois. He lived a number of years there on the farm.
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