When Martha Long was born in 1775, in Ashe, North Carolina, United States, her father, John R Long, was 26 and her mother, Susannah Vannoy, was 21. She married John Taylor Jr on 22 April 1812. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1865, in Alleghany, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 90.
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English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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