Brief Life History of Miles Standish
When Miles Standish Richmond was born on 17 May 1876, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Charles Cushing Richmond, was 39 and his mother, Emma Jane Standish, was 35. He lived in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1957, at the age of 81, and was buried in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (10)
- Myles Standish Richmond in household of Mrs Emma J Richmond, "United States Census, 1920"
- Miles Standish Richmond, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Miles Standish Richmond, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
Parents and Siblings
1837–1900 Male
1840–1929 Female
Siblings (4)
1873–1949 Female
1875–1957 Male
1876–1957 Male
1881–1967 Male
World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 5
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
Age 6
1898 · War with the Spanish
Age 22
Name Meaning
habitational name from Richmond (North Yorkshire). The placename was probably transferred after the Norman Conquest from any of numerous places in France named with Old French riche ‘mighty, strong’ + munt, mont ‘mountain, hill’. Richmond in southwest London received this name only in the reign of Henry VII, in honor of the king, who had been Earl of Richmond until he came to the throne, and is unlikely to be the source of this surname.
occasionally a variant of Richman , with excrescent -d. The two names were probably often confused.
English:
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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