Brief Life History of Abner
When Abner Perry Sr was born about 1770, in Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Perry Jr., was 40 and his mother, Silence Battelle, was 36. He married Patty Tainter on 11 November 1793, in Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died about 1839, at the age of 71.
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- Abner Perry, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Abner in entry for Patty Greenwood, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Abner Perry, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
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Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Herry ‘son of Herry’, a variant of the personal name Harry (see Harris ).
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pear tree (Middle English piri(e), peri(e), puri(e), Old English pirige, pyrige), or a habitational name for someone who owned or came from a place so named. This surname and a number of variants have been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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