When Abigail "Abby" Wisdom was born on 18 November 1793, in Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Henry Wisdom, was 39 and her mother, Lucy Scott, was 37. She married Thomas Davie on 12 November 1810, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1860 and Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1865. She died on 4 March 1878, in Villisca, Montgomery, Iowa, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Villisca, Montgomery, Iowa, United States.
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English (Middlesex, Surrey, Hampshire, and Kent): nickname for a wise or learned person, from Middle English wisdom (Old English wīsdōm) ‘wisdom, learning’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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