When George Washington Coleman Sr. was born on 15 May 1836, in England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Coleman, was 18 and his mother, Catherine Parkinson, was 14. He married Mary Lucy Fine on 2 July 1860, in Lavaca, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Hopkins, Texas, United States in 1900 and Sagerton, Haskell, Texas, United States in 1910. He died on 31 July 1924, in Texas, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Haskell, Texas, United States.
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Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
Irish and English: from the Middle English personal name Col(e)man, Old Irish Colmán, earlier Columbán, adopted as Old Norse Kalman. It was introduced into Cumbria, Westmorland, and Yorkshire by Norwegians from Ireland and probably spread widely across England. Ó Colmáin (‘descendant of Colmán’) was the name of an Irish missionary to Europe, also known as Saint Columban(us) (c. 540–615), who founded the monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy in 614. Columbanus is formally a derivative of the Latin for ‘dove’, seen in the name of the 6th-century missionary known in English as Saint Columba (521–597), who converted the Picts to Christianity. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Irish: from Mac Colmáin or Ó Colmáin ‘son (or descendant) of Colmán’.
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kalman or Kolman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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