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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Watonwan County, Minnesota. Official Website February 25, 1860, the south part of Brown was partitioned to create this county, with Madelia as the designated county seat. The county was named for its eponymous river, whose name reflects the Dakota word "watanwan," meaning "fish bait," or "plenty of fish." The word first appears in t...
Santa Cruz County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. In the original act, the county was given the name of "Branciforte" after the Spanish pueblo founded there in 1797. A major watercourse in the county, Branciforte Creek, still bears this name. Less than two months later, on April 5, 1850, the name was changed to "Santa Cruz" ("Holy Cross"...
The name Tuolumne is of Native American origin and has been given different meanings, such as Many Stone Houses, The Land of Mountain Lions, and Straight Up Steep, the latter an interpretation of William Fuller, a native Chief.[8] Mariano Vallejo, in his report to the first California State Legislature, said that the word is "a corruption of the Native American word talmalamne which signifies '...
The prehistory of San Luis Obispo County is strongly influenced by the Chumash people. There has been significant settlement here at least as early as the Millingstone Horizon thousands of years ago. Important settlements existed in coastal areas such as Morro Bay and Los Osos. Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was founded on September 1, 1772, in the area that is now the city of San Luis Obis...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tipton County, Indiana. Official Website The county was officially established in 1844 and was named for John Tipton, a soldier of the Battle of Tippecanoe, who later became a United States Senator. Adjacent Counties Clinton County Howard County Grant County Madison County Hamilton County Townships & Communities Ci...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Mason County, Michigan. Official Website The county is named for Stevens T. Mason, Governor of Michigan from 1835 to 1840. It was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Notipekago County, then renamed Mason County in 1843. Adjacent Counties Lake County Manistee County Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Sheboygan County,...
Olete teretulnud kõik need kes soovivad oma lähedased seoses selle rahupaigaga ära märkida ja projekti lisada. Projekt "Piirsalu uus kalmistu" koondab neid, kes on aegade jooksul seal oma rahu leidnud. Kultuurimälestise Riikliku Registri registrikanne [ Otsing Haudi andmebaasis ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pomona, California. Official Website The city is named for Pomona, the ancient Roman goddess of fruit. For horticulturist Solomon Gates, "Pomona" was the winning entry in a contest to name the city in 1875, before anyone had ever planted a fruit tree there. The city was first settled by Ricardo Vejar and Ygnacio Palomares in the 183...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in San Jose, California. Official Website San Jose (Spanish for '"Saint Joseph"'), officially the City of San José, is the economic, cultural and political center of Silicon Valley, and the largest city in Northern California (both by population and area). With an estimated 2018 population of 1,030,119, it is the third-most populous ci...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Santa Clara, California. Official Website The Tamien tribe of the Ohlone nation of Indigenous Californians have inhabited the area for thousands of years. The first European to visit the valley was José Francisco Ortega in 1769. The Spanish began to colonize California with 21 missions and the Mission Santa Clara de Asi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Windham County, Vermont. Windham county was created in 1781 and named for either Wyndham, England, or Windham County, Connecticut. Adjacent Counties Cheshire County, New Hampshire Franklin County, Massachusetts Sullivan County, New Hampshire Windsor County Bennington County For a complete list of Towns, Villages & C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Will County, Illinois . Official Website Will County was formed on January 12, 1836. It was named after Conrad Will, a politician and businessman involved in salt production in southern Illinois. Will was a member of the first Illinois Constitutional Convention and a member of the Illinois legislature until his death in 1835. Fo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wabasha County, Minnesota. Official Website The recently organized Minnesota Territory legislature created Wabasha County on October 27, 1849, one of nine original counties in the territory. Wabasha was named in honor of an Indian Chief of the Sioux Nation, Chief Wa-pa-shaw. Adjacent Counties Pepin County, Wisconsin Buffalo Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Addison County, Vermont. Iroquois settled in the county before Europeans arrived in 1609. French settlers in Crown Point, New York extended their settlements across Lake Champlain. A few individuals or families came up the lake from Canada and established themselves at Chimney Point in 1730. In 1731, Fort Frederic was erected at Cros...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rutland County, Vermont. On 16 February 1781, Rutland County was created and was named for the English county of Rutland. For a complete list of Cities, Towns, Villages & Communities, please see Wikipedia . Adjacent Counties Addison County Windsor County Bennington County Washington County, New York Cemeteries C...
The Governor of Puerto Rico is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and by its nature constitutes the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico. He is also the commander-in-chief of the commonwealth's military forces, the Puerto Rico National Guard. This project is only for the Governors of Puerto Rico from the year 1949 onward. List of governors of Puerto Rico...
English Scottish and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong) used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an Engli...
English (mainly West Midlands): habitational name from either of three places called Hadley in Worcestershire and Shropshire or from either of two places called Hadleigh in Essex and Suffolk or Monken Hadley in Middlesex. The first is named from the Old English personal name Hadda + lēah ‘wood (woodland) clearing’; the others are from Old English hǣth ‘heathland heather’ + lēah. In some cases a...
Doctors==*Dr. Samuel S. Quinn (1838 -)*Dr. William Wilson Quinn, Jr. (Living)=Newspaper Editors=*Lorie Clarke Quinn (1864 - 1953), Founder and 1st Executive Editor of the Crisfield Times, Associate Editor of the Record and Gazette==Politicians==*Egberg L. Quinn (1895 - 1968), Mayor of Crisfield, MD, Member of the Crisfield, MD House of Delegates, Member of the Crisfield City, MD Council*Lorie C...
atDna Jones Studies studying the ydna groupings by adding Geni profiles according to ydna group: J2 Group: J-ZS George Jones J2 JM267 Family Group 2 /Sephardim - Norman/French/Anglo R M269 Group: Samuel P. Jones 5 from Devon, England Richard Jones Jones listed here - - her husband Thomas Carr was listed as a tithable - 1782 Montgomery Co., VA tax list: 1 tithable, 0 slaves, 3 horse, 6 cattle. I...
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse buskr or an unrecorded Old English busc). Americanized form (translation into English) of German Busch . Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Buš Búš (see Bus ). Americanized form (translation into English) of other surnames meaning ‘bush’ for example Slovenian...
English: variant of Nichol with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages e.g. Croatian and Serbian Nikolić (see Nikolic ); see also below. Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022