When Syrena Remy was born on 13 February 1804, in Indiana, United States, her father, William Ramey, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Allensworth, was 25. She married James Abercrombie on 14 February 1838, in Franklin, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Marion Township, Henry, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Cooper Township, Gentry, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 20 March 1887, in Posey Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States, at the age of 83.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Information 1809 - Harrison, Indiana Territory, United States 1814 - Harrison, Indiana, United States
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Some characteristic forenames: French/Haitian Andre, Jean-Claude, Evens, Germaine, Gisele, Henri, Hugues, Jacques, Jean Raymond, Jean-Daniel, Josee, Laurent.
French (Rémy); West Indian (in Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe Rémy); Walloon and German: from a French personal name which represents a falling together of two distinct Latin names: Remigius (a derivative of remex, genitive remigis ‘rower, oarsman’), and Remedius (from remedium ‘cure, remedy’). The former name was borne by a 6th-century bishop of Rheims; the latter was borne by various other Christian saints of the 8th to 10th centuries. Compare Ramey , Reamy , and Rhamy .
History: The surname Rémy of French origin is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors, once along with its altered forms Ramey and Remey, and once along with the variant de Rémi and altered forms Reamy and Remey. It is also listed in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America. One of Huguenot ancestors was Jacques Rémy, born c. 1630 in France, who by 1672 lived in Westmoreland County, VA, where he died in 1721. Many of his descendants bear the surname Ramey , some also Rhamy . — Léopold Rémy dit Bellefleur from Biécourt in the Vosges married Marie-Angélique Trudel in L'Ange-Gardien, QC, in 1758.
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