When John Minge was born in 1771, in Weyanoke, Charles City County, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, David Minge, was 22 and his mother, Christiana Shields, was 26. He married Sarah Bassett Harrison on 6 June 1795, in Richmond District, Wise, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 27 May 1829, in Sandy Point, Westmoreland, Virginia, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Weyanoke, Charles City County, Virginia, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik.
English: perhaps from a shortened form of the personal name Dominicus (see Dominick ). Alternatively, as Reaney proposes, it may be from the Breton personal name Menguy, a compound of men ‘stone’ + ki ‘dog’. Compare Mingee .
German: from a pet form of the personal name Meinhardt .
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