When Dorcas Millet was born on 29 August 1720, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Millett Jr., was 35 and her mother, Dorcas Davis, was 36. She married John Wallace Jr. on 12 February 1740, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters.
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Some characteristic forenames: French Leonce, Aime, Aubert, Celine, Herve, Julien, Leandre, Marcel, Monique, Patrice, Raymonde, Roussel.
French and Catalan: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of millet or panic grass, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a field of millet, from French and Catalan millet (from Latin milietum, a derivative of milium, in Old French mil ‘millet’).
French: habitational name from (Le) Millet, the name of several places in various parts of France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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