When John Perkes was born on 31 May 1842, in Dudley, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Perkes, was 24 and his mother, Eliza Rollason, was 23. He married Eunice Elector Neville on 3 July 1866, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Belleville, St. Clair, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 17 July 1899, in Breese, Clinton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in St Johns Cemetery, Breese, Clinton, Illinois, United States.
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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
English (West Midlands): variant of Parkes or Parkhouse .
Jewish (from Ukraine): metronymic from the Yiddish name Perke (a pet form of the female personal name Perl ‘pearl’; see Perel 2) + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.
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