Brief Life History of Margaret Weldon
When Margaret Weldon Drake was born in 1725, in Virginia, United States, her father, John Lewis Drake, was 30 and her mother, Margaret Weldon, was 28. She married John B South Sr about 1748, in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 11 October 1819, in Fayette, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 94.
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- Margaret Weldon Drake South, "Find A Grave Index"
- Kentucky Probate Records, 1727-1990; Will of John South, Sr.
- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Weldon Drake -
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1758 · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English drake, either ‘drake, male duck’ (compare Duck ) or ‘dragon’ (Old English draca ‘snake, dragon’ or the cognate Old Norse draki), including an emblematic dragon on a flag (compare Dragon ). Both the Old English and the Old Norse forms are from Latin draco ‘snake, monster’; its sense as a nickname is unclear but it may have had the sense ‘standard bearer’. The name was taken to Ireland in the 13th century and reinforced by later English settlers in the 17th century.
German: from Low German drake ‘dragon’, familiar as image on signboards, hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn with such signboard.
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized and Flemish, of Draak, a cognate of 2 above, from draak (Middle Dutch drake) ‘dragon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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