Brief Life History of John
When John James II was born about 1567, in Owermoigne Liberty, Dorset, England, his father, John James Joanes, was 28 and his mother, Mary Agnes Manning, was 28. He had at least 5 sons and 2 daughters with Joane Henning. He died in 1695, at the age of 129.
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- John James in entry for Barnard James, "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001"
- John James in entry for Jane James, "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001"
- John James in entry for Elizabeth James, "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001"
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1569 · State Lottery
A State Lottery was recorded in 1569. The tickets were sold at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
1571 · The Royal Exchange is Organized
The Royal Exchange was organized in January 1571 by Sir Thomas Gresham. Gresham is known as the father of English banking.
1600 · The Honourable East India Company
The Honourable East India Company, a British joint-stock company, was established in 1600 for trade in the Indian Ocean region. At its height, the British East India Company had a private army which was twice the size of the British Army, ruled large sections of India, and revenues in the millions.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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