Velma Currie

Brief Life History of Velma

When Velma Currie was born in 1893, her father, Charles Frank Currie, was 23 and her mother, Etta Florence Noble, was 15. She died on 7 December 1896, in Blaine, Aroostook, Maine, United States, at the age of 3.

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Family Time Line

Charles Frank Currie
1870–1920
Etta Florence Noble
1878–1903
Jennie Beatrice Currie
1892–1969
Velma Currie
1893–1896
Jennette Beatrice Currie
1895–
Ila Myrtle Currie
1897–1897

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  • Velma Currie, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921" death

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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from Currie in Midlothian, first recorded in this form in 1230. It is derived from Gaelic curraigh, dative case of currach ‘wet plain, marsh’.

Scottish: habitational name from Corrie in Dumfriesshire or another place so named (see Corrie ).

Scottish form of Irish Curry or, in Arran, an Anglicized form of Mac Mhuirich (see McMurray ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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