Brief Life History of Josiah
When Josiah Paul was born on 28 April 1708, in Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Daniel Paul, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Bragdon, was 27. He married Sarah Goodwin on 16 February 1723. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Kittery, York, Maine, United States in 1708. He died after 16 February 1723.
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- Josiah Paul, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Joseph Paul in entry for Sarah Paul, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Josiah Paul - birth:
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1713
Historical Boundaries: 1713: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1716: York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: York, Massachusetts, United States 1820: York, Maine, United States
1713
Historical Boundaries: 1713: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1716: York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: York, Massachusetts, United States 1820: York, Maine, United States
Name Meaning
English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, West Indian (mainly Haiti, also e.g. Saint Lucia), and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the personal name Paul (from Latin Paulus ‘small’), which has always been popular in Christendom. It was the name adopted by the Pharisee Saul of Tarsus after his conversion to Christianity on the road to Damascus in about AD 34. He was a most energetic missionary to the Gentiles in the Roman Empire, and played a very significant role in establishing Christianity as a major world religion. The name was borne also by numerous other early Christian saints. It is also occasionally borne by Jews; the reasons for this are not clear. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages and their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Greek Pavlis , Slovenian Pavel and Pavlič (see Pavlic ), Polish Paweł (see Pawel ) and Pawlicki , Assyrian/Chaldean Polous and Polus . In France, this surname is most common in Brittany (see 2 below).
Breton (mainly Finistère): from a Frenchified form of the personal name Paol, Breton form of Paul .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Phóil ‘son of Paul’. Compare McFall .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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