When Mary English was born on 29 October 1713, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Benjamin English I, was 37 and her mother, Rebecca Brown, was 29. She died on 5 November 1713, in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 0.
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English, Scottish, and Welsh: ethnic name from Middle English English, Inglish, Inglis ‘English’ (Old English Englisc), sometimes alternating with Anglo-Norman French Engleis, Engles, Anglais, Angles (Old French Englois). Compare Inglis and England . Among the aristocracy and upper gentry it marked out a man of English ancestry from one of Norman or continental origin. In counties bordering England with Scotland and Wales the name distinguished an Englishman from a Scot or a native Welshman on both sides of the border. The name may also have been acquired by English merchants who traded abroad or who lived and worked in a ‘French’ borough in England (one exclusively administered by Normans).
Irish: in Ireland, this name was used to denote an Englishman, often being adopted for Irish Aingléis ‘Englishman’ or through mistranslation for Mac an Ghallóglaigh, see Gallogly and Golightly .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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