KWEKU MMFA ANTHONY

Male1889–1986

Brief Life History of KWEKU MMFA

KWEKU MMFA ANTHONY was born in 1889, in Elmina, Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipal, Central, Ghana as the son of Kofi Anthony and Nana Ekua Otuwa. He died in 1986, in his hometown, at the age of 97.

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Family Time Line

Kofi Anthony
Nana Ekua Otuwa
1860–1930
PAPA TOM
1884–1972
EFUA BOSOMEFIE
1886–1976
KWEKU MMFA ANTHONY
1889–1986
AMA BANKYE
1891–1967
AKOSUA ESSUON
1893–1968
KWESI ANTHONY
1895–1968
PAPA AWOTWE
1897–1992
KOBINA BOSOMTWE
1899–1971
ABA BADU
1901–2007

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    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (9)

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    World Events (3)

    1966

    Age 77

    While Nkrumah is in China, army stages widely popular coup. National Liberation Council comes to power.

    1979

    Age 90

    Junior officers stage Ghana's first violent coup, June 4. Armed Forces Revolutionary Council formed under Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings. Hilla Limann elected president in July.

    1981

    Age 92

    Rawlings stages second coup. Provisional National Defence Council established with Rawlings as chairman.

    Name Meaning

    English and West Indian (mainly Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, also Dutch Caribbean): from the personal name Anthony, Latin Antonius, which, with its variants and cognates, is one of the commonest personal names in Europe. Spellings with -h-, which first appear in English in the 16th century and in French (as Anthoine) at about the same time, are due to the erroneous belief that the name derives from Greek anthos ‘flower’. The popularity of the personal name in Christendom is largely due to the cult of the Egyptian hermit Saint Anthony ( AD 251–356), who in his old age gathered a community of hermits around him, and for that reason is regarded by some as the founder of monasticism. It was further increased by the fame of Saint Anthony of Padua (1195–1231), who long enjoyed a great popular cult and who is believed to help people find lost things. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates and derivatives (patronymics) from other languages, for example Greek patronymic Antoniades , Italian Antoni , Polish Antoniewicz , Croatian and Serbian Antonović (see Antonovich ) and Antunović; see also below. The name Anthony is also found among Christians in southern India, but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. Compare Antony .

    German, Flemish, and French (mainly Alsace): Latinized (humanistic) patronymic from local equivalents of the Latin personal name Antonius, from its genitive form Antoni(i). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the German, Dutch, French, and Slovak cognates Antoni 1 and Antony 2.

    History: John Anthony of Hampstead, Middlesex, England (now part of north London) migrated to Boston, MA, in 1634. By 1640 he had moved to Providence, RI, where his descendants are still established.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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