When Bethiah Wing was born on 22 January 1715, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Wing IV, was 34 and her mother, Bethiah Winslow, was 24. She married James Bangs on 7 February 1735, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died before 1760, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Weng (Old West Scandinavian Wenge, perhaps originally a nickname from vengi ‘pillow, cushion’).
English and Scottish: habitational name from either Wing in Buckinghamshire or Wing in Rutland. The Buckinghamshire placename probably means ‘the people of Wiwa’, from an Old English personal name Wiwa + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas. The Rutland placename and probably derives from Old Norse vengi ‘field’.
Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 榮, see Rong 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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