When Mary Duce was born in October 1755, in Leek, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Duce, was 26 and her mother, Hannah Washington, was 11752. She married Joseph Earls on 2 February 1775, in Leek, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 2 December 1816, at the age of 61.
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English: variant of Dowse , a nickname from Middle English douce, dowce ‘sweet, pleasant’ (Old French dolz, dous, later doux). The name was sometimes used as a woman's personal name and occasionally used for a man. Alternatively, the name may arise from the Middle English personal name Douce, occasionally male but mostly female, borrowed from Old French Douce (from Latin Dulcia, derived from Latin dulcis ‘sweet’). The variant Duce is mostly pronounced to rhyme with loose, in contrast with Dowse, mostly pronounced to rhyme with house.
Italian: nickname from duce ‘leader, chief’, from Latin dux.
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