When William Cleaton Giles Jr. was born in 1807, in Virginia, United States, his father, William Cleaton Giles, was 22 and his mother, Lucy Standley, was 19. He married Mary Young on 13 December 1834, in Williamson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 17 April 1847, at the age of 40.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
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English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, Middle English Giles or Gile, a borrowing from Old French Gil(l)e(s). This is from Latin Aegidius and this presumably from Greek aigidion ‘kid, young goat’ (alternatively, it could be a Late Latin formation from the Latin personal name Eggius + the suffix -idius). The personal name was widely used in France and the Low Countries, partly through veneration of Saint Gilles de Provence, supposedly a hermit of the 7th century near Arles; he was patron saint of cripples, hence the dedication of Saint Giles Cripplegate in London, though the personal name itself was less common in England than elsewhere in Europe. See also Gilles .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name based on glas ‘green, blue, gray’.
French: variant of Gilles , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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