Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Gore was born on 30 January 1727, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Samuel Gore, was 27 and his mother, Mary Williams, was 16. He died on 13 January 1730, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 2, and was buried in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Samuel Gore, "Find A Grave Index"
- Samuel, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Samuel Gore, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: from Middle English gor(e), gar(e) ‘triangular piece of land’ (Old English gāra, a derivative of gār ‘spear’, with reference to the triangular shape of a spearhead), a topographic name for someone living by a triangular field, or a habitational name from any of various places, for example Gore Court in Tunstall (Kent) and Gore Farm in Hannington (Wiltshire), named from this word.
French: from Old French gore ‘sow’ (a word of allegedly imitative origin, reflecting the grunting of the animal), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a swineherd or as an unflattering nickname.
French: probably also from a pet form of a vernacular form of the personal name Grégoire (see Gregory ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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