Brief Life History of David
When David Major was born in 1754, in Ireland, his father, James Major, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Patterson, was 22.
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World Events (3)
1798
Battle of Antrim.
1798
The Young Ireland rebellion of 1798 failed.
1839
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the personal name Malg(i)er, Maug(i)er, an Old French form of ancient Germanic Madalgar(i) (see Mauger ).
Hungarian: from a shortened form of majorosgazda (see Majoros ) or a derivative of German Meyer .
Polish, Czech, and Slovak: from the military rank major (derived from Latin maior ‘greater’), a word related to English mayor and the German surname Meyer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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