When Elizabeth Mary Ann Massie Sherwin was born on 12 October 1772, in Amelia, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Sherwin, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Randolph, was 27. She married Thomas Vivian Brooking on 20 May 1790, in Amelia, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 15 April 1835, in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States, at the age of 62.
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English (Staffordshire and Derbyshire): nickname perhaps used to denote a swift runner or a messenger, from Middle English schere(n) ‘(to) shear, cut’ + wind ‘wind’.
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