When Rachael Woodbury was born about 1708, in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Isaac J Woodbury, was 11706 and her mother, Elizabeth Herrick, was 41. She married Timothy Patch Jr on 18 November 1731, in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 10 September 1758, in her hometown, at the age of 51.
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English (Somerset and Devon): habitational name from Woodbury in Devon, named from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + byrig, dative of burg ‘fortress’, or from either of two places called Woodborough, in Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire. The Nottinghamshire placename has the same origin as Woodbury in Devon. Woodborough in Wiltshire is named with the same first element + Old English beorg ‘hill’.
History: John Woodbury emigrated from Somerset, England, to Gloucester, MA, in 1623.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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