When Martha J. Day was born in 1852, in Dalton, Coös, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Morrill Curtis Day, was 21 and her mother, Lucinda Jane Staples, was 19. She married Daniel L Weathers on 16 October 1880, in Bradford, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States for about 10 years. She died on 25 February 1929, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States.
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English: occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairyman or dairymaid’. Originally used only of women, it was later used of men with the sense ‘man in charge of the dairy cattle’. This is probably the most common source of the surname.
English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey. In western England this is probably a pet form of David , but in northern England and perhaps elsewhere also it is a late Middle English variant of Daw, a pet form of Ralph (see Daw , Dakin ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Dea ).
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