John Brennan Delaney was born on 18 September 1864, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as the son of John J Delaney and Catherine Brennan. He married Bertha Maude Ziegler on 24 November 1896, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Lansing Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States in 1900. He died on 6 January 1936, in Lansing, New Hope, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Cormac, Clancy, Colm, Conley, Conor, Dermot, Donal, Eamon, Eamonn, Finbar.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Laney with fused preposition de.
Irish: Anglicized form, influenced by the Norman name, of Gaelic Ó Dubhshláine ‘descendant of Dubhshláine’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + slán ‘challenge, defiance’. MacLysaght, however, suggests that this element may be from the Sláinge river.
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