Brief Life History of Eunice
When Eunice Southwell was born about 1735, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Ebenezer Southwell, was 43 and her mother, Elizabeth Judd, was 43. She married Medad Pomeroy Jr. from January 1757 to December 1757, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 6 April 1760, in her hometown, at the age of 26, and was buried in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Eunice Southwell, "Connecticut Marriages, 1640-1939"
- Eunice Southwell Pomeroy, "Find A Grave Index"
- Eunice Southwell, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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Name Meaning
English:
from Middle English south ‘south’ + wel(le) ‘well, pool, spring’ (Old English sūth + wella). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived ‘by the south well’ or ‘south of the well’, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Southwell (Nottinghamshire) or Southwell on the Isle of Portland (Dorset).
in Yorkshire and Lancashire, often a hypercorrect form of Soothill, a habitational name from Soothill in Dewsbury (Yorkshire), from Old English sōt ‘soot’ + hyll ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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