When Alfred Giles was born on 14 January 1852, in Wield, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Francis Giles, was 21 and his mother, Mary Pearman, was 25. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1868 and lived in Utah, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 January 1949, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, Middle English Giles or Gile, a borrowing from Old French Gil(l)e(s). This is from Latin Aegidius and this presumably from Greek aigidion ‘kid, young goat’ (alternatively, it could be a Late Latin formation from the Latin personal name Eggius + the suffix -idius). The personal name was widely used in France and the Low Countries, partly through veneration of Saint Gilles de Provence, supposedly a hermit of the 7th century near Arles; he was patron saint of cripples, hence the dedication of Saint Giles Cripplegate in London, though the personal name itself was less common in England than elsewhere in Europe. See also Gilles .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name based on glas ‘green, blue, gray’.
French: variant of Gilles , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesAlfred Giles Alfred Giles, son of George Giles and Mary Pearman, was born 14 January 1852 in Weild, Hamshire, England. He attended the school of that place part tim …
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