Brief Life History of Josephine
When Josephine Keeling was born about 1845, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States, her father, Edmund B. Keeling, was 45 and her mother, Elizabeth Nancy Baker, was 40.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Josephine Keeling in household of Nancy *Teeling, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Josephine Keeling - Published information: birth-name: Josephine Keeling
Parents and Siblings
1802–1850 Male
1807–1880 Female
Siblings (16)
1824– Female
1825– Female
1827–1874 Female
1828–1888 Male
1828– Female
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World Events (3)
1846
Age 1
1846
Age 1
1863
Age 18
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English keling, kiling (probably of Old Norse origin) ‘young codfish’, perhaps for a fishmonger or for someone with staring eyes. Alternatively, from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Kel(l)ing, which may be transferred use of the nickname keling. The name has been established in Ireland since the 17th century. It is not to be confused with Irish Keelan .
Americanized form of German Kühling, a patronymic from Colo, probably a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name meaning ‘helmet’.
English: variant of Killing, a habitational name from Kelling (Norfolk) or Nunkeeling (East Yorkshire), both meaning ‘(the place of) the people of a man called Cylla’, from an Old English personal name Cylla + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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