Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameHamilton RYAN 45
Birth Date1824
Birth PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
OccupationUnion Soldier, Corporal 6th Tennessee Infantry,
FatherHenry Fuller RYAN , 88 (1795-1856)
MotherNancy BRAKEBILL , 89 (1800-1860)
Spouses
1Eliza SHALES 45
Birth Date1830
Birth PlaceSouth Carolina
Family ID6379
Marr Date7 Nov 1851
Marr PlaceKnox County, Tennessee
Notes for Hamilton 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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Notes for Eliza (Spouse 1)
Alternative spelling of last name Scales.

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