When Daniel W Worth was born on 10 February 1739, in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Worth, was 45 and his mother, Lydia Gorham, was 37. He married Eunice Narcissa Hussey on 9 February 1764, in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 10 July 1830, in Guilford College, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Centre Friends Meeting Cemetery, Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Worth, for example in Cheshire, Dorset, Sussex, and Kent, from Old English worth ‘enclosure, settlement’. The vocabulary word probably survived into the Middle English period in the sense of a subsidiary settlement dependent on a main village, and in some cases the surname may be a topographic name derived from this use. Compare Worthy .
North German: topographic name from Middle Low German wort ‘enclosure, elevated piece of land, farmstead’, or a habitational name from a place so named in northern Germany.
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