When Walter Charles Simons was born on 18 February 1855, in Crayford, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Willis Simons, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Ann Ruff, was 31. He lived in Sittingbourne, Kent, England, United Kingdom for about 50 years. He died in October 1919, in Milton, Kent, England, at the age of 64.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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English: variant of Simon , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
North German, Dutch, Flemish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Simon . This surname is also found in France (Nord, Alsace, and Lorraine). In North America it has also absorbed various European cognates and their derivatives, e.g. Slovenian Simončič and Simonič, Slovak Šimončič and Šimonič (see Simoncic and Simonic ). Compare Simonds .
History: This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its altered form Simonds in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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