John Joseph Walsh

Brief Life History of John Joseph

When John Joseph Walsh was born on 11 February 1891, in Louisiana, United States, his father, John Thomas Walsh, was 21 and his mother, Lillian Ethel Wright, was 16. He married Elizabeth W Munster on 12 August 1920, in Orleans, Louisiana, United States. He lived in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States in 1900. He died on 9 March 1961, in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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John Joseph Walsh
1891–1961
Elizabeth W Munster
1884–1972
Marriage: 12 August 1920

Sources (15)

  • John J Walsh, "United States Census, 1940"
  • John Walsh, "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957"
  • John Walshe, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Dermot, John Patrick, Kieran, Declan, Eamonn, Colm, Donal, Seamus, Siobhan, Brennan.

English and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English walshe (Old English wælisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’. This form of the name was generally more common than Welsh , especially in Ireland, where it originally denoted a Welsh-speaking immigrant, in particular any of the Welshmen who arrived in the wake of Strongbow's Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170. In Ireland it is sometimes also a translation of Breathnach ‘Briton’.

English: in Yorkshire and Lancashire the name is sometimes a shortened form of Walshaw .

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

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