Brief Life History of George Washington
When George Washington Duncan was born on 5 August 1849, in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William John Duncan, was 28 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Clark, was 27. He married Mary Elizabeth Holmes in 1872. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Empire Township, Ellsworth, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Steuben Township, Marshall, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. He died on 3 September 1928, in Saratoga Township, Marshall, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Sparland Cemetery, Marshall, Illinois, United States.
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Sources (15)
- George Duncan in household of William Duncan, "United States Census, 1850"
- George Washington Duncan, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- George W Duncan, "United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Ellsworth, Kansas, United States
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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