When Aaron Mereon York Sr. was born on 27 August 1807, in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States, his father, Peter York, was 29 and his mother, Abiah Russell, was 26. He married Hannah Carter on 30 November 1830, in Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1864. He died on 13 November 1881, in Santaquin, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Santaquin City Cemetery, Santaquin, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Information 1822: Henry, Indiana, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesAaron and Hannah Carter York and their children departed from Kanesville (Council Bluffs), Iowa, for Salt Lake in 1850. Their children, born in Newry, were: Asa Bartlett York, 18; Julia Ann Kilgore Yo …
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