Mary Elizabeth Hepworth was born in 1649, in Ireland. She married John Abbott on 30 July 1718, in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died after 19 March 1721, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, and was buried in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, British Colonial America.
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The Protestant Lord Protector of England, Oliver Cromwell, landed at Dublin. His troops killed 2,000 men. A great part of lands in Munster, Leinster and Ulster (Drogheda and Wexford) was confiscated and divided among the English soldiers.
Over 6,000 Irish boys and women sold as slaves since England gained control of Jamaica.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Hepworth (Yorkshire) or, less likely, from the place so named in Suffolk. The Yorkshire placename derives from an Old English personal name Heppa + Old English worth ‘enclosure’, while the Suffolk placename comes from Old English hēope ‘rose hip’ or hēopa ‘dog rose, bramble’ + worth.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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