When Derrel Milton Francis was born on 31 July 1923, in Rutledge, Scotland, Missouri, United States, his father, William Preston Francis, was 25 and his mother, Lotti Ethel Tull, was 22. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1950. He died on 1 December 2003, in Vacaville, Solano, California, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Alpine Cemetery, Alpine, Utah, Utah, United States.
English: from the Old French personal name Franceis, modern French François, from Latin Franciscus, originally ‘Frank’, though later used to denote a Frenchman. The personal name owed much of its popularity during the Middle Ages to the fame of Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), whose baptismal name was actually Giovanni but who was nicknamed Francisco because his father was absent in France at the time of his birth. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Francesco and Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Franc , and also their derivatives, e.g. Croatian Francišković (see Francisco 4).
English: ethnic name from the Old French adjective Franceis ‘French’ (see 1 above).
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, or an adoption of the non-Jewish surname.
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