Brief Life History of Mehitable
When Mehitable Street was born on 6 January 1744, in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Street, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth Smith, was 21. She died on 12 February 1830, at the age of 86.
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Name Meaning
English: from Middle English stret(e) ‘street, Roman road’ (Old English strǣt). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in the main street of a village or town or by a Roman road, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Street (Kent, Herefordshire, Somerset), Street on the Fosse (Somerset), Strete in Blackawton (Devon), Strete Raleigh in Whimple (Devon), or Streat (Sussex). In the Middle Ages the word at first denoted a Roman road but later also came to denote the main street in a town or village.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Strasser and a number of other surnames with similar meaning.
Americanized form of Jewish (from Morocco) Chetrit: perhaps from the Arabic verbal root shṭr ‘to become skillful, dexterous, astute’. The exact origin of the suffix –it is unclear.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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