When Prudence Cheney was born on 7 September 1672, in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Cheney, was 25 and her mother, Hannah Thurston, was 22. She died on 17 January 1685, in her hometown, at the age of 12.
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English: variant of Chaney with the same etymology as in 2 below.
French: topographic name for someone who lived by or in an oak wood, from Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’ (from chesne ‘oak’), or a habitational name from any of several places called (Le) Cheney, e.g. in Haute-Savoie, named with this word. Compare Chesney .
French Canadian: altered form of French Chesnay or Chenay, topographic names with the same meaning and etymology as in 2 above, or habitational names from (Le) Chesnay or (Le) Chenay, names of several places in the northwestern part of France, based on Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’. Compare Chenette and Chenier 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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