When Eugene Pusey Monks was born on 6 June 1875, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Wesley Monks, was 26 and his mother, Rachel Elizabeth Jefferis, was 23. He married Mary Ann Gertrude “Minnie” Devine on 14 December 1893, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Kennett Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died in 1958, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83.
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English: variant of Monk , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
North German (Mönks): patronymic from Mönk (see Monk ).
English (Lancashire) and Irish (Dublin): topographic name from Middle English (atte) monkes ‘(at the) monk's (house or quarters), (at the) monastery’, a name for someone who lived or worked there, presumably a servant. Compare Maidens , Masters , Parsons .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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