When Betty Doel was born in April 1783, in Westbury, Wiltshire, England, her father, James Doel, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Raines, was 36. She married James Lydberry on 16 June 1797, in Westbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (mainly Wiltshire): nickname from Middle English dole (Old English dol) ‘dull, slow witted’, identical and exchangeable with Dull (see Dill ).
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