When Josephine Asenath Sippy was born on 2 May 1825, in Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Isaac Sippy, was 24 and her mother, Mercy Ball, was 24. She married Thomas Gadsby on 8 September 1840. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Sandycreek Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 7 August 1888, in Mineral Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Gadsby Cemetery, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: Indian Anil, Arvind, Dilip, Vishal.
Indian: from a shortened form of Sindhi Sipahimalani ‘descendant of Sipahimall’, presumably the personal name of an ancestor, derived from Persian sipāhī ‘soldier’ + məll (Sanskrit malla ‘wrestler’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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