Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Neal was born in February 1843, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Neal, was 38 and his mother, Amelia Brittingham, was 28. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1850. He died in 1880, in Globe, Gila, Arizona, United States, at the age of 37.
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- Charles Gallagher in household of John Gallagher, "United States Census, 1850"
- Charles Neal in the Family Data Collection - Births
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1854
Male Atkins, 10 Jan 1854
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Old French, Anglo-Norman French, and Middle English personal name Neel, Nele, Nihel, Niel, itself derived from the Latin name Nigellus (a diminutive of Latin niger ‘black’), originally a nickname for someone with black hair or a dark complexion. The name was very common among Normans and was brought to England at the time of the Norman Conquest. There has been considerable confusion with the Irish and Scottish Gaelic name Niall (see Neil ); the two names are now pronounced identically. It is theoretically possible that in Normandy, where the personal name was popular, that it was also used for Old Norse Njáll, but this is difficult to prove. Njáll was adopted from the Irish Gaelic personal name Niall by Vikings in Ireland, who took it back to Iceland and Norway, but whether the Vikings also took Njáll to Normandy and to the northwest of England, is an open question, which cannot be settled on the available evidence.
English: alternatively from the Middle English personal name Nele, a variant of Nell as a pet form of Elias (see Ellis ). Compare Nelson , Nielson .
Scottish and Irish: shortened form of McNeal (see McNeil ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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