When Sibyl Terry was born on 23 May 1769, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Lt Samuel Terry, was 43 and her mother, Mary Kellogg, was 38. She married Nathanial Billings on 23 March 1785. She died on 5 April 1844, in her hometown, at the age of 74, and was buried in Old Hazardville Cemetery, Hazardville, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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English and Irish: from the Norman personal name T(h)erry (Old French Thierri), a short form of Theodoric, which is composed of the ancient Germanic elements theud ‘people, race’ + rīc ‘power(ful), rich’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 493. His name was sometimes taken as a derivative of Greek Theodōros (see Theodore ). An Anglo-Norman family of this name has been in County Cork, Ireland, since the 13th century.
Irish: sometimes an Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley ).
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