When Doris Ione James was born on 19 April 1935, in Wichita, Kansas, United States, her father, George James, was 26 and her mother, Lilia Mae Emery, was 20. She married Jesse Stayton Sr about 1953, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. She died on 18 October 2007, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 72.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
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