When Leonettie Prime was born on 31 December 1864, in New Tusket, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Bernard Prime, was 29 and her mother, Martha A Nichols, was 34. She married Amos Spurgon Nichols on 16 December 1884, in New Tusket, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1864 and Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 10 February 1937, in Havelock, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in Havelock, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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English: from a Middle English personal name or nickname. The personal name existed in Old English, and is probably derived from Old English prim ‘early morning’ (from Latin primus ‘first’, used as the name of one of the canonical hours). The surname may be derived from this word as a Middle English nickname in the sense ‘fine, excellent’.
Dutch (Primé): of French origin (see 3 below).
French: from the feminine form of Prim 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesLeonettie Prime Nichols, my grandmother. A small woman, not well as she had tuberculosis, and when I saw her when an 8 year old girl, she was bedridden and frail. Like to read, read to her children …
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