When Miriam Marsh was born on 22 June 1752, in Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joseph Marsh III, was 33 and her mother, Abigail Hinsdale, was 24. She died on 24 August 1837, in Shelby, Orleans, New York, United States, at the age of 85.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mersch (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places called with this word, for example in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Buckinghamshire.
Americanized form of German Marsch .
Americanized form of Slovenian Marš: unexplained. Compare Mars 7.
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