Brief Life History of Maria
When Maria Deyo was born from 1846 to 1847, in New York, United States, her father, Leonard Deyo, was 50 and her mother, Maria H. Wentworth, was 45.
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- Maria Deyo in household of Leonard Deyo, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Maria Deyo - Published information: birth-name: Maria Deyo
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
Name Meaning
Altered form of French Dejoux: habitational name, with fused preposition de ‘from’, denoting someone from Joux, the name of several places in the eastern part of France. The altered form is based on an archaic spelling of the name, de Iou. Compare Deyoe .
Americanized form of French Canadian Dion 3, itself an altered form of French Guyon . Compare Deo 3.
History: Christian Deyo alias Chrétien De Joux married Jeanne Wibau or Verbeau in France c. 1642. He emigrated to North America via Germany in 1675 and was one of the founding settlers in New Paltz, NY, in 1675–78. He had one son, Pierre (born in France), and this one four sons, three of whom (Abraham, Christian, and Hendricus) had children of their own. Christian Deyo is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America. — Some of the American bearers of the surname Deyo are descendants of Jean Guyon du Buisson from France, one of the earliest settlers on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in New France (see Guyon ). His descendant Joseph Dion, born in QC in 1810 to Benoit Guyon alias Dion, became known as Joseph Deyo alias Deo after he settled in NY in the 1850s (see also Deo ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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