When Sarah Melitta Day was born on 17 December 1846, in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Samuel Day, was 28 and her mother, Sophronia A Dodge, was 19. She married John H Mullen in 1865, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 22 February 1947, at the age of 100, and was buried in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, 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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