When Lydia Barstow was born on 27 May 1715, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Job Barstow, was 36 and her mother, Rebeckah Bushnell, was 28. She married William Edgerton on 6 November 1733, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 7 May 1769, in New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 53, and was buried in Plains Cemetery, Franklin, New London, Connecticut, United States.
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English (Yorkshire): habitational name from a lost place called Bairstow in Southowram, Yorkshire, probably named with Old English beger ‘berry’ + stōw ‘place’. The surname is still most common in Yorkshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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