Brief Life History of Oscar Joseph
When Oscar Joseph Harris was born on 5 April 1914, in Brown's Town, Saint Ann, Jamaica, his father, Joseph Alexander Harris, was 42 and his mother, Christiana Brown, was 31. He married Vioris Aneita Cambridge on 3 July 1952, in Brown's Town, Saint Ann, Jamaica. He lived in Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica in 1957 and Greendale, Spanish Town, Saint Catherine, Jamaica in 1976. In 1976, at the age of 62, his occupation is listed as purchasing officer, agricultural marketing corporation in Jamaica. He died on 31 August 1976, in Spanish Town, Saint Catherine, Jamaica, at the age of 62, and was buried in Jamaica.
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- Donald J Harris and Shyamala Gopalan marriage announcement in Kingston Gleaner
- Find A Grave
- Oscar Harris, "Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1880-1999"
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World Events (3)
1944
Universal adult suffrage introduced. new constitution providing for a popularly-elected House of Representatives promulgated.
1958
Jamaica becomes a member of the British-sponsored Federation of the West Indies.
1961
Jamaica withdraws from the Federation of the West Indies.
Name Meaning
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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