Brief Life History of Lydia
When Lydia Chapin was born on 14 March 1755, in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Josiah Chapin, was 36 and her mother, Rachel Albee, was 29. She died on 18 January 1759, in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 3.
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- Lydia Chapin, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Lydia Chapin, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
- Lydia Chapin, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
French and Spanish: from Old French eschapin, Spanish chapín ‘type of overshoe made of cork’, applied as a nickname for someone who habitually wore this type of footwear or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made them.
English: variant of Chopin , more commonly surviving in England as Chopping and Chappin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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