When Martha Church was born on 23 September 1694, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Church, was 27 and her mother, Abigail Harrison, was 21. She married John White on 5 January 1715, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She died in 1723, in her hometown, at the age of 29.
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English: topographic name mostly found in southern and midland England, for someone who lived near a church, or possibly an occupational name for someone who worked at a church, such as a verger or sexton, from Middle English chirche ‘church’. The word comes from Old English cyrice, ultimately from medieval Greek kyrikon, for earlier kyriakōn (dōma) ‘(house) of the Lord’, from kyrios ‘lord’. Compare Kirk .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Kirch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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