When Deborah Weeks was born on 26 July 1718, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Rev George Weeks, was 30 and her mother, Deborah Wing, was 31. She married William Penny Jr on 6 February 1738. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 22 May 1761, in Dutchess, New York Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 42.
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English: variant of Wicks .
Americanized form of Norwegian and Swedish Vik .
History: This surname was brought to North America independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the earliest on record is Leonard Weeks, who emigrated from Somerset, England, to Portsmouth, NH, some time before 1656. — William Weeks, recorded in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA, from 1653 onward, was probably a cousin or other relative of the John Wickes mentioned at Wickes .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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