Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameWhitehead RYAN 125
Birth Date1732125
Birth PlaceSt. James Parish, Goochland, Virginia
Death Date1757 Age: 25
Death PlaceVirginia
FatherPhilip Fore RYAN Jr. , 320 (1697-1764)
MotherSarah C. WHITEHEAD , 321 (1701-1764)
Spouses
1Elizabeth FULCHER 125
Birth Date?
Family ID2486
Marr Date1757125
Notes for Whitehead RYAN
RYAN: Irish: simplified form of Mulryan. Irish: reduced form of O’Ryan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Riagháin (modern Irish Ó Riain) ‘descendant of Rian’; Ó Maoilriain ‘descendant of Maoilriaghain’, or Ó Ruaidhín ‘descendant of the little red one’. Ryan is one of the commonest surnames in Ireland; there has been considerable confusion with Regan. KaM Americanized spelling of German Rein. EG Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press

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