When Eliza Martin was born on 25 February 1829, in Camborne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Davis Martin, was 24 and her mother, Mary Trewartha, was 25. She married John Singer on 15 November 1847, in Elk Grove, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Holt Township, Taylor, Iowa, United States for about 15 years and Quincy Township, Adams, Iowa, United States in 1900. She died on 26 January 1917, in Corning, Adams, Iowa, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Prairie Rose Cemetery, Corning, Adams, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1846: Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Adams, Iowa, United States
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
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