Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna York was born on 7 April 1741, in Westerly, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Stanton York, was 33 and her mother, Jemima Shaw, was 30. She married John Gavitt on 19 April 1758, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. She died in 1790, at the age of 49.
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Family Time Line
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- Anna York, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
Spouse and Children
1736–1779 Male
1741–1790 Female
Parents and Siblings
1708–1807 Male
1711–1810 Female
Siblings (6)
1731–1769 Female
1734– Male
1737–1800 Female
1737– Male
1739–1764 Female
+1 More Child
World Events (5)
1763 · First Synagogue in America
Age 22
1772 · The Gaspee Affair
Age 31
1776
Age 35
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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