William Samuel Munnis

Brief Life History of William Samuel

When William Samuel Munnis was born on 6 October 1860, in Virginia, United States, his father, James Knox Munnis, was 30 and his mother, Martha Watson, was 23. He married Louisa Jane Knaut on 21 March 1889, in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871 and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1889. He died in 1941, at the age of 81, and was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America.

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Family Time Line

William Samuel Munnis
1860–1941
Louisa Jane Knaut
1863–1936
Marriage: 21 March 1889
Dorothy Knaut Munnis
1891–1974
William Rogers Munnis
1896–1964

Sources (10)

  • William Munnis in household of Jas K Murris, "Canada Census, 1871"
  • Wm S Munnis, "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917"
  • William S Munnis, "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918"

World Events (8)

1861 · The Battle of Manassas

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

1871

British Columbia joins the confederation.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of German Muntz .

Americanized form of Greek Mountis or Moundis (or perhaps some other similar Greek surname), based on the adjective moundis, in Byzantine Greek meaning ‘dark reddish brown’ but later acquiring the transferred sense ‘sulky, gloomy, dismal’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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