When Keziah Dow was born on 8 March 1738, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Elihu Dow, was 38 and her mother, Mehitable Cilley, was 34. She married Robert Collins Sr. on 2 February 1763, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1738. She died on 16 May 1785, in Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 47.
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Scottish: nickname from Gaelic dubh ‘black’ (see Duff ).
English: from the Middle English personal name Dow, a rhyming pet form of Row(e), representing a common pronunciation of Rolf, a side form of Ralph. See Rolfe and compare Daw , Dawson , and Dowson . Alternatively, in East Anglia the name may be a variant of Dove .
Americanized form of Dutch Douw: from the personal name Douwe, from Frisian dou ‘pigeon’.
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