Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Homer was born about September 1846, in Swanage, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Henry Homer, was 25 and her mother, Susan Bonfield, was 21.
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Family Time Line
Sources (7)
- Jane Homer in household of James Homer, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Jane, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Jane Homer, "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-1936"
Parents and Siblings
1821– Male
1825–1853 Female
Siblings (5)
1846– Female
1849– Female
1851– Male
1851– Female
1853–1853 Male
World Events (7)
1854 · The Crimean War
Age 8
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
Age 34
1884
Age 38
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for a dweller by a holly bush, from Middle English holm (Old English holen) + the agent suffix -er, a type of formation characteristic of Hampshire and Sussex. See Holm 2.
English: habitational name from Holmer (Herefordshire), Holmer Green (Buckinghamshire), or Homer (Devon), or else from other unrecorded placenames formed with Middle English hol(g)h + mere ‘pool by or in the hollow’ (Old English holh + mere).
English: perhaps an occupational name for a maker of helmets, from Old French heaumier, heumier (from ancient Germanic he(a)ume ‘helmet’), but it is uncertain that this name became hereditary. Compare Helm 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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