When Mary Shade was born on 12 March 1779, in Barnham, Suffolk, England, her father, John Shade, was 28 and her mother, Lydia Matthews, was 26. She married James Elias Bloomfield on 28 February 1804, in Coney Weston, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Saint Margaret, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and West Walton, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died in 1844, at the age of 65, and was buried in West Walton, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived on a boundary, from Middle English shed(e) ‘boundary’ (Old English scēad).
English: perhaps a nickname for a very thin man, from Middle English shade, shadwe ‘shadow’ (Old English sceadu).
Americanized form of German and Dutch Schade .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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