When Robert C. Coleman was born on 31 January 1842, in Fairfield, South Carolina, United States, his father, Henry Alexander Coleman, was 44 and his mother, Chaney Feaster, was 41. He died on 6 January 1862, at the age of 19, and was buried in Feasterville, Fairfield, South Carolina, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
South Carolina is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Irish and English: from the Middle English personal name Col(e)man, Old Irish Colmán, earlier Columbán, adopted as Old Norse Kalman. It was introduced into Cumbria, Westmorland, and Yorkshire by Norwegians from Ireland and probably spread widely across England. Ó Colmáin (‘descendant of Colmán’) was the name of an Irish missionary to Europe, also known as Saint Columban(us) (c. 540–615), who founded the monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy in 614. Columbanus is formally a derivative of the Latin for ‘dove’, seen in the name of the 6th-century missionary known in English as Saint Columba (521–597), who converted the Picts to Christianity. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Irish: from Mac Colmáin or Ó Colmáin ‘son (or descendant) of Colmán’.
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kalman or Kolman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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