Brief Life History of Monica
When Monica Dillon was born about 1711, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, her father, Matthais Dillon, was 39 and her mother, Eleanor Groghegan, was 36.
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Family Time Line
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World Events (3)
1714
Catholics hold just 7% of land in Ireland.
1798
Battle of Antrim.
1798
The Young Ireland rebellion of 1798 failed.
Name Meaning
English, Irish, and French: from the Norman French personal name Dillon, arising from the ancient Germanic Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dil- ‘destroy’).
English: habitational name from Dilwyn in Herefordshire, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘settlement at the shady or secret places’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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