When Abigail Lester was born on 4 December 1782, in Long Whatton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Lester, was 29 and her mother, Abigail Hull, was 29. She married Joseph Hayes on 5 April 1801, in Long Whatton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 3 April 1853, in Long Whatton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 70, and was buried in Long Whatton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: habitational name from Leicester, which is recorded as Ligeraceastre in the 10th century. The placename derives from an Old English folk name Legore ‘the dwellers by the river Legor (a lost river name)’ + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Lestre in Normandy.
English and Scottish: variant of Lister .
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