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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- 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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