Richard Day

1683–
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

The Life of Richard

When Richard Day was born in 1683, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Day Sr., was 42 and his mother, Sarah Pengry, was 39. 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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Richard Day
1683–
Mrs Richard Day
1687–
Marriage: about 1708
Day
1708–

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
about 1708
Staplehurst, Kent, England, United Kingdom
children

(1)

    Day

    Male1708–Male

Parents and Siblings

siblings

(6)

+1 More Child

Name Meaning

1 English: from a pet form of David .2 English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey(e), Old English Dæi, apparently from Old English dæg ‘day’, perhaps a short form of Old English personal names such as Dægberht and Dægmund. Reaney, however, points to the Middle English word day(e), dey(e) ‘dairy maid’, ‘(female) servant’ (from Old English dæge, cognate with Old Norse deigja ‘female servant’, ultimately from a root meaning ‘to knead’, and related to the word for dough), which he says came to be used for a servant of either sex.3 Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh ( see O’Dea ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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