Brief Life History of Josephine
When Josephine Maxwell was born in 1855, in Tiskilwa, Bureau, Illinois, United States, her father, Samuel Hepburn Maxwell II, was 29 and her mother, Mary Jane Follett, was 18. She died in 1855, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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Scottish: habitational name from a place in Kelso, near Melrose in Roxburghshire, the name of a salmon pool on the Tweed near Kelso Bridge. The placename is first recorded in 1144 in the form Mackeswell ‘Mack's spring or stream’ (Old English well(a)).
Irish: adopted for Ó Meisceall, see Miskell . This surname is common in Ulster.
Jewish: arbitrary adoption of the Scottish name, or Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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