Brief Life History of May Josiphine
When May Josiphine Hoff was born on 7 November 1878, in Keyport, Hazlet Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, her father, Walter Tomkins Hoff, was 26 and her mother, Mrs. Mary M. Hoff, was 30. She died on 18 January 1892, in Raritan Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 13, and was buried in Keyport, Hazlet Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- May J Hoff New Jersey, State Census, 1885
- May J. Hoff New Jersey Deaths and Burials
- May J Hoff United States Census, 1880
Parents and Siblings
1852–1908 Male
1848–1909 Female
Siblings (2)
1876–1877 Female
1878–1892 Female
World Events (6)
1879
Age 1
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 3
1886
Age 8
Name Meaning
North German, Dutch, and Danish: topographic name or status name for the owner of a farm, or an occupational name for someone who worked on the main farm in a community, from Middle High and Low German hof ‘farmstead, manor farm’, or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word. Compare Hof , Hofer , and Hoffmann , and also Huff .
Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Hov, from Old Norse hof ‘sacrificial temple’. Compare Huff .
English: variant of Hough .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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