When A. Ann Prescott was born in 1858, in Coffee, Alabama, United States, her father, John Wesley Prescott, was 19 and her mother, Lee Dicey Helms, was 17. She lived in Election Precinct 10 Victoria, Coffee, Alabama, United States in 1860.
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1839–1864 Male
1841– Female
1858– Female
1860– Female
1862–1932 Female
1863– Female
English: habitational name from any of the places so called, in southwestern Lancashire (now Merseyside), Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘dwelling’. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th century.
History: John Prescott of Standish, Lancaster, England, arrived in NewEngland in 1640 and in 1643 was one of the first settlers ofLancaster, MA. His descendants include several prominent Americans ofthe revolutionary war, including Samuel Prescott, born in Concord, MA,in 1751, whose fame lies in completing the midnight ride of warning in1775 after Paul Revere was captured.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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