When Mary Kirby was born in 1666, in Great Munden, Hertfordshire, England, her father, Thomas Kirby, was 31 and her mother, Dorothy Bawcock, was 32. She married Thomas Gutteridge on 20 October 1687, in Ardeley, Hertfordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1723, in Cottered, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 57, and was buried in Cottered, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Cíarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick .
Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Geirble ‘son of Geirble’, a personal name of uncertain origin. The name is preserved in the townland name of Carrowkeribly in County Mayo.
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