When Margaret Porter was born on 11 October 1820, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Hezediah III Porter, was 36 and her mother, Margaret Ellenwood, was 29. She married Isaiah Crosby on 27 December 1841, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Ohio, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1881. She died on 21 November 1881, at the age of 61, and was buried in Ohio, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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English and Scottish: occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English and Older Scots porter(e), port(o)ur ‘doorkeeper, gatekeeper’ (Anglo-Norman French port(i)er, portur, Latin portarius). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. The name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner ) and Poertner .
English: occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Middle English port(o)ur, porter ‘porter, carrier of burdens’ (Anglo-Norman French portur, porteo(u)r).
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized, of Poorter, status name for a freeman (burgher) of a town, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter. Compare De Porter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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