Brief Life History of Ernest B.
When Ernest B. May was born on 16 June 1884, in Jericho, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, his father, Horace S May, was 40 and his mother, Marcia Farnsworth, was 34.
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- Ernest B May, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
- Ernest B May, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
- Ernest B May, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English male personal name May, a pet form of Matthew (see Mayhew ).
English, Dutch, and German: from a personal name or nickname taken from the month of May (Middle English, Old French mai, Middle High German meie, from Latin Maius (mensis), from Maia, a minor Roman goddess of fertility). This name was sometimes bestowed on someone born or baptized in the month of May; it was also used to refer to someone of a sunny disposition, or who had some anecdotal connection with the month of May, such as owing a feudal obligation then. In England, this name was possibly also a pet form of Mary or Margaret. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Denmark.
English: nickname from Middle English mey, may ‘kinsman’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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