Brief Life History of Gilbert
When Gilbert Winch was born in 1902, in Louisiana, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Winch, was 33 and his mother, Mary Rosan Broussard, was 27. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Lona Vincent. He lived in Ward Seven, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States for about 30 years. He died on 9 April 1963, at the age of 61, and was buried in Pecan Island, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States.
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- Gilbert Winch, "United States Census, 1940"
- Gilbert Winch, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Gilbert George Winch, "Find A Grave Index"
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1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English winche ‘winch, pulley’ (Old English wince), later meaning ‘well’, presumably because a winch would have been used to extract water from a well. The surname is probably a topographic name for someone who lived by a well. Compare Wink . This may also be a topographic name denoting someone who lived by a sharp bend in a river or valley, from a transferred sense of winche ‘winch, pulley’. This term and sense appears to be behind some placenames, such as Wincham (Kent) and Winchbottom (Buckinghamshire).
English: habitational name from East and West Winch (Norfolk). The placenames probably derive from Old English winn ‘pasture, meadow’ + wīc ‘dwelling, specialized farmstead’.
English: perhaps also a nickname from a further transferred use of the Middle English word in sense 1 above, for a lapwing (compare Middle English lapwink ‘lapwing’, Old English hlēapewince) or other bird known for its leaping and twisting flight.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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