Josephine Maxwell

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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Family Time Line

Samuel Hepburn Maxwell II
1826–1899
Mary Jane Follett
1837–1916
Josephine Maxwell
1855–1855
Harry Stoddard Maxwell
1856–1930
Rolla Maxwell
1859–1913
Charles Calvin Maxwell
1862–1927
Kate Maxwell
1864–
William Hepburn Maxwell
1868–1941
Fred Maxwell
1870–
Richard Maxwell
1872–

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    Name Meaning

    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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