Brief Life History of James Madison
When James Madison Remy was born on 22 November 1812, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Ramey, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Allensworth, was 34.
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1854
Male Atkins, 10 Jan 1854
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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