Brief Life History of James John William
When James John William Duncan was born on 24 November 1850, in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Duncan, was 35 and his mother, Mary Brown, was 39. He lived in Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Gladsmuir, Haddingtonshire, Scotland in 1861. He died on 31 December 1906, in Bench Creek, Wasatch, Utah, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Woodland, Summit, Utah, United States.
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- James Duncan, "Scotland Census, 1861"
- James J. W. Duncan, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- James Duncan, "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891"
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1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Summit, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Summit, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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