When Abigail Sharp was born about 1629, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Sharp, was 37 and her mother, Alice Stileman, was 26. She married Thomas Jeggles on 27 October 1647, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died in 1686, in her hometown, at the age of 58.
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English sharp(e) ‘sharp, quick, smart, acute, keen-witted’ (Old English scearp).
Irish: when not the English or Scots name in 1 above, an Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Géaráin ‘descendant of Géarán’, a personal name based on a diminutive of géar ‘sharp’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Scharf ‘sharp-cutting’ or of any of several other European names with similar meaning.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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