Mary Sherry was born in 1690, in Chailey, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. She married John Pomfrey on 19 October 1714, in St Michael, Sussex, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1733, in Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 43, and was buried in Iford, Sussex, England, United Kingdom.
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Irish (Monaghan): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Séartha ‘son of Séartha’, an Irish form of Geoffrey . Compare McSherry 2.
Welsh, English (Shropshire): perhaps a Welsh pronunciation of the Old French personal name Geri, Jery (see Geary ), with [ʃ] for French and Middle English [ʤ], as in Welsh Siôn (see Shown ) for John .
English and Scottish: perhaps a variant of Sherriff , with loss of final -f influenced by the variation between Bayliff and Bailey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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