When Perry Greene James was born on 11 May 1788, in West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Joseph James, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Greene, was 35. He married Jane Andrews in 1810, in West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Connecticut, United States in 1870 and New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1880. He died on 7 April 1881, at the age of 92.
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English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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