When Dolly Beard was born in 1759, in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathan Beard, was 53 and her mother, Sarah Smith, was 52. She married Whitmore Beardsley on 2 March 1780, in Huntington, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Shelton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1781 and Fairfield, Franklin, Vermont, United States in 1840. She died on 27 January 1849, in Kane, Illinois, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Burlington Cemetery, Burlington, Kane, Illinois, United States.
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English:
nickname for a bearded man (from Middle English berd, Old English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century, the crucial period for surname formation. There is a placename and other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, in particular German Barth 1.
habitational name from a place called Beard in Derbyshire (now represented by Beard Hall and Beardwood Farms in New Mills parish), which derives its name by dissimilation from Old English brerd ‘rim, bank’.
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