Brief Life History of Irene
Irene was born about 1881. She married Thomas Elmer Hollas Meeks about 1908, in Utah, United States. She died about 1965, at the age of 86.
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Family Time Line
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- Irene Meeks Jr in entry for Mary Mcneil, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
Spouse and Children
1888–1957 Male
1881–1965 Female
Name Meaning
From Greek eirēnē ‘peace’ it was borne in Greek mythology by a minor goddess who personified peace, and by a Byzantine empress ( 752–803 ). The name was taken up in the English-speaking world at the end of the 19th century, and became popular in the 20th, partly as a result of being used as the name of a character in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga ( 1922 ). It was formerly pronounced in three syllables, as in Greek, but is now thoroughly naturalized as an English name and usually pronounced as two syllables.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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