When Alice Jerome was born in 1709, her father, Isaac Jerome, was 40 and her mother, Johana Fuse, was 44.
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The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Some characteristic forenames: French Emile, Andre, Armelle, Dominique, Edmound, Francois, Georges, Herve, Jean Robert, Lucien, Lucienne, Marcel.
French and West Indian (mainly Haiti) (Jérôme): from the French personal name Jérôme, from Latin Hieronymus . This surname is most common in Haiti.
English (southern): from either of two distinct personal names which became confused in Middle English: ancient Germanic Ger(r)am (Gerrannus), composed of the ancient Germanic elements gār, gēr ‘spear’ + hraban ‘raven’, and Latin Hieronymus , which is the source of English Jerome and French Jérôme (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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