When Sarah Jane Beach was born on 24 December 1838, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Thomas Parnell Beach, was 30 and her mother, Sarah Stickney Barker, was 24. She married William Edwin Upham on 15 July 1863, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 21 June 1914, in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 75.
English: topographic name from Middle English beche ‘beech-tree’ (Old English bēce) or Middle English beche ‘stream’ (Old English bæce). Middle English beche may be from Old English bēce ‘beech’ or bæce ‘stream’, and without further evidence it is impossible to distinguish these in Middle English.
Americanized form of Alsatian and German Bitsch: habitational name from Bitche (German Bitsch) in Alsace and Lorraine, at the foot of the northern slope of the Vosges.
Americanized form of German (mainly Hesse) Bitsch: unexplained.
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