When Shirley M Ames was born on 14 June 1949, in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States, her father, Theodore L Ames, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth May Stetson, was 32. She died on 25 September 2003, in Lancaster, Coös, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States.
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United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.
USS Swordfish (SSN-579), the first American atomic submarine, was launched from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. The ship was ordered on July 18, 1955 and launched on August 27, 1957
The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both all the states and Congress from swaying the right to vote in elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
English (of Norman origin): from the Old French personal name Amis or from the feminine form, Amice. The Old French word amis, is from Latin amicus ‘friend’, which was used in Late Latin as a term for a man of the lower classes, in particular a slave. There were also derivatives of this as personal names, in particular masculine Amicius and feminine Amicia. Both were in use as personal names in England and may have contributed to the surname.
German: perhaps a nickname for an active person, from an ancient Germanic word related to Old High German amazzig ‘busy’.
Dutch: possibly a patronymic from Ame a common personal name in Holland and Friesland, an abbreviated form of an ancient Germanic personal name, perhaps beginning with amel ‘strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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