When John George Giles was born on 18 June 1862, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, John Henry Giles, was 35 and his mother, Ann Kingman, was 26. He married Amy Alicia Hanks on 21 December 1887, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Manti Utah Temple, Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1900 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 15 September 1934, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, 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.
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