When Sarah Ann James was born on 16 August 1853, in Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, David James, was 30 and her mother, Margaret Lewis, was 36. She married Howell Parry Jones on 20 June 1892, in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Rhondda, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1911 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 1 July 1925, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
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