Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Voyle was born on 15 October 1839, in North Curry, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Vyle, was 24 and his mother, Phoebe Waterman, was 30. He married Charlotte on 14 March 1896, in Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States in 1870. He died on 15 August 1915, in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 75.
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- Joseph Vile, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Joseph Voyle, "Florida, County Marriages, 1830-1957"
- Joseph Voyle in entry for Francis B Voyle, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1853
Historical Boundaries: 1853: Alameda, California, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
1 Welsh: nickname from a mutated form of Welsh moel ‘bare, bald’. Compare pen‐foel ‘bald‐headed’.
2 English: occasionally perhaps a variant of Foyle (1) or (2) with voicing of the initial consonant, a dialect feature of W England and of SW England as far as W Sussex. The Shrops examples may alternatively belong here.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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