When Abigail Hanchet was born on 3 February 1717, in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Hanchet, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth, was 34. She married Samuel Olds on 10 July 1745, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 25 October 1765, in her hometown, at the age of 48.
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English (Staffordshire): possibly a late variant of the Huguenot surname Hanchard, a nickname from French hanche ‘hip’ + the pejorative suffix -ard.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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