Brief Life History of John
When John Buchanan was born about 1796, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States, his father, James Buchanan Sr, was 32 and his mother, Martha Black, was 26.
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Parents and Siblings
1765–1858 Male
1771–1854 Female
Siblings (15)
1792–1850 Male
1794–1880 Male
1794–1881 Male
1796–1874 Male
1796– Male
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World Events (3)
1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
Age 3
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 4
1803
Age 7
Name Meaning
Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin, see Bohannon .
History: This is the name of a Scottish clan associated with lands on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond and in the Lennox. — The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. George Buchanan came to MD in 1698. — James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th President of the US (1857–61), was born near Mercersburg, PA, the son of a successful land speculator and store keeper, who had emigrated to PA from Scotland in 1783.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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