James Quigley

Male1865–5 January 1944

Brief Life History of James

James Quigley was born in 1865, in County Galway, Ireland. He married Elizabeth Quinn in 1886. He died on 5 January 1944, at the age of 79.

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James Quigley
1865–1944
Elizabeth Quinn
1865–1962
Marriage: 1886

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  • Marriage
    1886
  • World Events (3)

    1919

    Age 54

    Irish War of Independence against Britain ending in the Anglo Irish Treaty.

    1920

    Age 55

    In the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Ireland was partitioned, with the unionist-dominated north east becoming Northern Ireland.

    1922

    Age 57

    Irish Civil War between the Free State army and IRA.

    Name Meaning

    Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Declan, Eamonn, Cathal, Clancy, Colm, Fionnuala, James Patrick, John Patrick, Kiera, Kieran.

    Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coigligh ‘descendant of Coigleach’, a byname apparently representing a simplified form of coigealach ‘like a distaff, untidy person’.

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

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