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Our American Family - Person Sheet

Name_____ _____

Birth Date?

Spouses

1Sally RYAN

Birth Date1834

Birth PlaceMonroe County, Tennessee

Death Date6 Mar 1900 Age: 66

Death PlaceKnoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

FatherHenry Fuller RYAN , 88 (1795-1856)

MotherNancy BRAKEBILL , 89 (1800-1860)

Family ID1061

ChildrenFanny (1858-)

Notes for Sally (Spouse 1)

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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