Brief Life History of Douw
When Douw Fonda was born about 1765, his father, Jacob Fonda, was 25 and his mother, Dirkje Hermanus Visscher, was 20. He married Alida Van Ness on 31 October 1793, in Schaghticoke, Schaghticoke, Rensselaer, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 17 May 1838, at the age of 74, and was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery, Albany, New York, United States.
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- Douwe Fonda, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
- Douw Fonda, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dowe Funda in entry for Abraham Funda, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
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World Events (8)
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
Dutch (of West Frisian origin): apparently an altered form of Funda, which may well be a reinterpretation, due to similarity to Latin fundus ‘depth’, of Foyngha, the name of an estate managed by the ancestors of the first and only bearer of this surname in the Netherlands, who later established its variant in America. There is no evidence for the supposed Spanish origin of this surname.
Italian (Trieste) and Slovenian: nickname from Italian fonda, an old variant of fionda ‘sling, catapult’, or from an Italian homonym meaning ‘bag’. This form of the surname was first recorded in 1230 in Slovene Littoral.
Italian: possibly also a habitational name from a place called with the adjective fondo, fonda ‘deep’, for example Cavafonda ‘deep cave’ or Vallefonda ‘deep valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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