When Hannah Faunce was born on 30 May 1718, in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Faunce, was 34 and her mother, Lydia Cooke, was 33. She married Charles Cooke on 30 May 1738, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1718. She died on 24 December 1747, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 29, and was buried in Old Burying Ground, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: nickname from Middle English faun, foun (Old French faon, foun) with genitival or, more likely, post-medieval excrescent -s, meaning ‘cub, young animal, young fallow deer’, perhaps for a lively, frisky youth. The same word was occasionally used as a personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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