Dorcas Millet

Brief Life History of Dorcas

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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Family Time Line

John Wallace Jr.
1719–1768
Dorcas Millet
1720–
Marriage: 12 February 1740
James Wallis
1742–
Dorcas Wallis
1743–1745
Dorcas Wallis
1746–1826

Sources (10)

  • Dorcas Millett, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Dorcas Wallis, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
  • Dorcas Wallis, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

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Name Meaning

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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