Brief Life History of Richard
When Richard Day was born in 1683, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Day Sr., was 43 and his mother, Sarah Pengry, was 40. He married Mrs Richard Day about 1708, in Staplehurst, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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English: occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairyman or dairymaid’. Originally used only of women, it was later used of men with the sense ‘man in charge of the dairy cattle’. This is probably the most common source of the surname.
English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey. In western England this is probably a pet form of David , but in northern England and perhaps elsewhere also it is a late Middle English variant of Daw, a pet form of Ralph (see Daw , Dakin ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Dea ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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