When Thelma Irene May was born on 24 March 1919, in Middletown, Butler, Ohio, United States, her father, John Henry May, was 32 and her mother, Elva E Nickell, was 34. She married Jasper Bell Hollingsworth on 25 August 1956, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States. She died on 3 July 2002, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 83.
English: from the Middle English male personal name May, a pet form of Matthew (see Mayhew ).
English, Dutch, and German: from a personal name or nickname taken from the month of May (Middle English, Old French mai, Middle High German meie, from Latin Maius (mensis), from Maia, a minor Roman goddess of fertility). This name was sometimes bestowed on someone born or baptized in the month of May; it was also used to refer to someone of a sunny disposition, or who had some anecdotal connection with the month of May, such as owing a feudal obligation then. In England, this name was possibly also a pet form of Mary or Margaret. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Denmark.
English: nickname from Middle English mey, may ‘kinsman’.
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