When Verna Cecelia Quinn was born on 27 December 1916, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, James Quinn, was 46 and her mother, Mary Ann Harriett Millay, was 37. She married Russell Edward Nichols on 11 April 1940. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Norman, Minnesota, United States in 1935 and Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States in 1940. She died on 7 October 1978, in Eau Claire, French Guiana, at the age of 61, and was buried in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Kieran, Conor, Declan, Dermot, Fionnuala, Aidan, Aileen, Brigid, Donovan, Eamon, Jarlath.
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coinn, earlier spelled Ó Cuinn, ‘descendant of Conn’, a personal name meaning ‘wisdom’ or ‘chief’ (see O'Quinn ). This is the name of several families in Ulster and counties Clare, Longford, and Mayo.
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coinne ‘descendant of Coinne’, a personal name which may be a variant of Coinneach (see also McKenzie ). This is an Ulster surname, a sept deriving from Eoghan, son of Niall Naoighiallach, from whom Tyrone is named. In most cases the Anglicized forms cannot be distinguished from sense 1 above, although final -e may have been intended as syllabic.
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