When Catherine Mack was born on 12 July 1759, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Mack, was 36 and her mother, Hannah L. Englehart, was 24. She married John Miller in 1780, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters.
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Historical Boundaries: 1784: Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States
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Scottish and English: from the Old Norse personal name Makkr, representing an Old Irish name Mac ‘son’ Latinized as Maccus. It was once thought that Maccus was a form of Magnus , but this is not so.
Scottish and Irish: possibly from a shortened form of any of the many Scottish and Irish surnames beginning with Mac- ‘son’, a nickname that occasionally became encoded as a nickname and thence perhaps as a genuine surname, but the evidence for this is thin.
North German and Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Macco, Makko, a pet form of a compound name with the first element māg- ‘kinsman’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the much more common Dutch variant Mak .
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