When Lydia Frances Cole was born on 1 September 1853, in Providence Township, Lucas, Ohio, United States, her father, Hugh Cole, was 37 and her mother, Louisa Forbes Phillips, was 31. She married Lewis W Van Fleet on 21 January 1879, in Lucas, Ohio, United States. She lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Waterville, Waterville Township, Lucas, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 15 January 1942, in Waterville, Lucas, Ohio, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Waterville, Lucas, Ohio, United States.
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English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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