When Lillian Elsie Martin was born on 17 November 1860, in China Township, Lee, Illinois, United States, her father, Moses Dewitt Martin, was 25 and her mother, Burella Jane Paddock, was 23. She married August Carl Wegner on 24 March 1920, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States. She lived in Flagg, Ogle, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Rockford Township, Winnebago, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 6 May 1938, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States.
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
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