When Elisabeth Gimson was christened on 2 January 1791, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Gimson, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Foster, was 11788.
English: (i) relationship name, ‘son of Jimme or Gemme’, from Middle English pet forms of the male (and possibly female) personal names German and Jemes, a variant of James ( see also Gem ). If this medieval surname survived into early modern times it will have become indistinguishable from (ii). (ii) relationship name; late Middle English and early Modern English variant of Jameson ‘son of James’.
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