Brief Life History of Rebecca Covell
When Rebecca Covell Martin was born in 1806, in Rhode Island, United States, her father, William Brown Martin, was 29 and her mother, Sally Thurber, was 31. She married James Humphrey about 1827, in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 26 February 1892, in her hometown, at the age of 86, and was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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- Rebecca C Humphrey in household of James Humphrey, "United States Census, 1860"
- Rebecca Covell Humphreys, "Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950"
- Rebecca Humphreys in entry for Elizabeth Wanton Humphreys, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"
Spouse and Children
1803–1873 Male
1806–1892 Female
Children (7)
1831–1831 Male
1832–1897 Female
1834–1834 Male
1836–1851 Female
1837–1854 Female
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Parents and Siblings
1777–1812 Male
1775–1809 Female
Siblings (5)
1799–1799 Female
1801–1884 Female
1803–1835 Male
1806–1892 Female
1808–1809 Female
World Events (8)
1808
Age 2
1811 · USS Revenge
Age 5
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 24
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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