Bernard Quinn was born on 5 December 1893. He married Mary Manila Van Cott on 21 June 1924, in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States. He died on 16 October 1938, in Bogota, Bergen, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 44.
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1893–1938 Male
1898–1989 Female
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Kieran, Conor, Declan, Dermot, Fionnuala, Aidan, Aileen, Brigid, Donovan, Eamon, Jarlath.
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coinn, earlier spelled Ó Cuinn, ‘descendant of Conn’, a personal name meaning ‘wisdom’ or ‘chief’ (see O'Quinn ). This is the name of several families in Ulster and counties Clare, Longford, and Mayo.
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coinne ‘descendant of Coinne’, a personal name which may be a variant of Coinneach (see also McKenzie ). This is an Ulster surname, a sept deriving from Eoghan, son of Niall Naoighiallach, from whom Tyrone is named. In most cases the Anglicized forms cannot be distinguished from sense 1 above, although final -e may have been intended as syllabic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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