Hannah Faunce

Brief Life History of Hannah

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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Family Time Line

Charles Cooke
1717–1798
Hannah Faunce
1718–1747
Marriage: 30 May 1738
Abigail Cooke
1739–
Lydia Cooke
1741–1803
Josiah Cooke
1745–1827

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  • Hannah Faunce, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Hannah Faunc, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
  • Hannah Faunce Cooke, "Find A Grave Index"

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Name Meaning

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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