When Robert James Hume Sr. was born on 24 December 1898, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William James Hume, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth or Lizzie D. Hume, was 31. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Anna Elizabeth Stryker. He lived in Schuylkill Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Coatesville, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. He died in 1957, in United States, at the age of 59.
Scottish (Lowlands) and northern English: variant of Hulme , with loss of l before the bilabial consonant /m/, as in the vocabulary word calm. See Holm and Home .
Scottish: habitational name either from the barony of Home or from Hume (or Home) in Berwickshire, from which the barony took its name. The placename derives from Old English hōum, dative plural form of hōh ‘heel, spur of land’.
History: A family of this name (see 2 above) have held the Earldom of Home since 1605.
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