Brief Life History of Lydia
When Lydia Higgins was born on 24 August 1698, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Ichabod Higgins, was 35 and her mother, Melatiah Hamlin, was 30. She died in 1756, at the age of 58, and was buried in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Lydia Higgins, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Lydia Higgins, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lydia Higgins - birth: 13 April 1698;
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Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking, sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr). Compare McGuigan .
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Higgin, itself either a Lancashire variant of Huggin (from a pet form of Hugh ), or a variant of Hickin (from a pet form of Richard ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See Hick and compare Higson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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