When Mary Fearn was born on 20 February 1721, in Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, John Fearn II, was 30 and her mother, Anne Machen, was 11718. She married William Owen on 9 February 1742, in Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 24 April 1744, in Christchurch, Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 23.
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English: from Middle English fe(a)rn(e) ‘fern, bracken’ (Old English fearn). The surname may be topographic, denoting someone who lived in a place covered with bracken or ferns, or toponymic, denoting someone from a place so named. See Fern .
Scottish: habitational name from Fern, Angus, or Fearn, Ross and Cromarty.
Irish: adopted for Ó Reannacháin (more traditionally Anglicized as Renahan), on account of its resemblance to raithneach ‘fern’. See Renehan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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