When Ann Lees was christened on 6 December 1757, in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Lees, was 43 and her mother, Sarah Marland, was 39.
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English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English lees ‘fields, arable land’, plural of lee (see Lee ), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture, meadow’ (Old English lǣs).
English: habitational name fromLeece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from OldEnglish lēas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural oflēah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably namedwith a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall, court, the principalhouse in a district’.
English: variant of Leece 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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