When Adelina Frances Winslow was born on 12 October 1823, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, William Winslow, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Cushing Waterman, was 23. She married George Faunce on 21 June 1845, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 23 June 1910, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: habitational name from Winslow in Buckinghamshire. The placename derives from the Old English personal name Wine (genitive Wines) + Old English hlāw ‘mound, hill’.
History: Edward Winslow (1595–1655), one of the founders of the Plymouth Colony who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, was born in Droitwich, Worcestershire, England. He was a governor of the colony and also served as agent of the Massachusetts Bay Company in France. In 1621 he married Susanna, the widow of William White, the first marriage in New England. Their son Josiah (c. 1629–80) was governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680, the first native-born governor in North America. He had numerous prominent descendents.
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