When Mary Woodbury was born on 14 May 1657, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Andrew Woodbury, was 34 and her mother, Mary Cockerell, was 30. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1657. She died on 6 November 1658, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 1.
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English (Somerset and Devon): habitational name from Woodbury in Devon, named from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + byrig, dative of burg ‘fortress’, or from either of two places called Woodborough, in Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire. The Nottinghamshire placename has the same origin as Woodbury in Devon. Woodborough in Wiltshire is named with the same first element + Old English beorg ‘hill’.
History: John Woodbury emigrated from Somerset, England, to Gloucester, MA, in 1623.
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