When John Windsor was born on 20 December 1769, in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Reverend John Winsor, was 46 and his mother, Mercy Smith, was 41. He lived in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1769. He died on 2 June 1776, in Smithfield, Amenia, Dutchess, New York, United States, at the age of 6.
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English:
habitational name from Windsor (Berkshire), Windsor in Stratford upon Avon (Warwickshire), Winsor in Copythorne (Hampshire), Winsor in Yealmpton (Devon), or Broadwindsor and Little Windsor (Dorset). All these places have the same linguistic origin, whose meaning is controversial, but seems to be ‘windlass bank’ (Old English windels + ōra).
in Yorkshire perhaps a habitational name from Winds Over in Middleton (near Ilkley, Yorkshire). The placename probably derives from Old English wind ‘wind’ (genitive windes) + ofer ‘slope, hill, ridge’.
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