Brief Life History of Deborah
When Deborah Woodcock was born in 1663, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Woodcock, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Curtis, was 36. She married Benjamin Onion on 24 May 1683, in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She died on 23 March 1718, in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 55.
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- Debora Woodcock, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Deborah Woodcock - death:
- Debora Woodcock, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English:
from Middle English wodecok ‘woodcock’ (Old English wuducocc, a compound of Old English wudu ‘wood’ + cocc ‘cock, bird’), a type of bird that is notoriously easy to catch. Therefore, the name might have been either for a person who caught or sold woodcock, or a nickname for a gullible person.
in some cases, because there can be confusion between -cock and -cot in surnames, and therefore the name may also be a variant of Woodcott, a habitational name from any of various places called with Old English wudu ‘wood’ + cot ‘cottage, shelter’, such as Woodcott in Cheshire and Hampshire or Woodcote in Hampshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Shropshire, or from any residence at a cottage in or near a wood.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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