Brief Life History of James
When James Fenton was born on 25 April 1712, his father, John Fenton, was 22 and his mother, Jean Buchanan, was 19.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- James Fenton, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
Parents and Siblings
1690– Male
1693– Female
Siblings (3)
1709– Female
1710– Female
1712– Male
World Events (3)
1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
Age 90
1811 · The Tron Riot
Age 99
1815
Age 103
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee 1 and Finnerty ).
Scottish: habitational name from Fenton in East Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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