When Marjorie Ruth O'Brien was born on 16 November 1904, in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, John Gilson O'Brien, was 32 and her mother, Amy Josephine Wilbur, was 24. She married James Reginald Heffernan on 13 August 1930, in Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Maywood, Bergen, New Jersey, United States in 1935 and Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States in 1940. She died on 24 July 1988, in Albany, Albany, New York, United States, at the age of 83.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Dermot, Liam, Brigid, Declan, Donovan, John Patrick, Kieran, Colm, Donal, Brennan, Caitlin.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Briain ‘descendant of Brian’, a personal name probably based on the element bre- ‘hill’, with the transferred sense ‘eminence’, i.e. ‘exalted one’. See also Bryan . In Ireland there has also been some confusion with O'Byrne (see Byrne ).
History: This name is borne in particular by one of the greatest of Irish septs, descendants of Brian Boru, who rose to the high kingship of Ireland in 1002.
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