When William James Byrne was born on 27 November 1860, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Terrell Byrne, was 34 and his mother, Mary Jane Spurlock, was 26. He married Ann Elizabeth Carter on 26 July 1885, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He died on 30 November 1943, in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Eamon, Aidan, Liam, Niall, Declan, Eamonn, Fergus, John Patrick, Keelin, Kieran, Siobhan.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin ‘descendant of Bran’, a personal name based on bran ‘raven’. Bran was the name of a son of the King of Leinster, who died at Cologne in 1052, and also of the hero of an 8th century voyage tale.
Irish: in some cases, possibly from Ó Birn ‘descendant of Biorn’, Irish form of the Old Norse personal name Bjǫrn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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