When Elizabeth Child was born on 20 July 1691, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joshua Child, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth Morris, was 26. She married John May IV on 18 December 1711, in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 12 December 1752, in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 61, and was buried in Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States.
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Windham County was created from Hartford and New London counties on May 12, 1726
English:
nickname from Middle English child ‘child, infant’ (Old English cild), in various possible applications. The word is found in Old English as a byname, and in Middle English as a widely used affectionate term of address. It was also used as a term of status for a young man of noble birth, although the exact meaning is not clear; in the 13th and 14th centuries it was a technical term used of a young noble awaiting elevation to the knighthood. In other cases it may have been applied as a byname to a youth considerably younger than his brothers or to one who was a minor on the death of his father.
in Kent, possibly a topographic name from Old English cielde ‘spring (water)’, a rare word derived from c(e)ald ‘cold’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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