When James Kenyon was born on 23 June 1772, in Dutchess, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin B Kenyon, was 25 and his mother, Lydia Hawkins, was 25. He married Margaret Hoxsie in 1795, in Dutchess, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 17 June 1850, in Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Indian Mound Cemetery, Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States.
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English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. There was formerly an ancient burial mound there and Ekwall has speculated that the name is a shortened form of a British name composed of the elements crūc ‘mound’ + a personal name cognate with Welsh Einion (see Eynon ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinín ‘son of Coinín’, a byname based on a diminutive of cano ‘wolf’, also Anglicized as Canning and Cunneen . The similarity to the borrowed word coinín ‘coney, rabbit’ has sometimes caused this name to be Anglicized as Rabbitt .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhinghin, ‘son of Finghen’, a personal name meaning ‘fair-born’.
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