Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Manning was born on 13 January 1747, in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Manning, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Wood, was 23.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Mary Manning, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
Parents and Siblings
1722– Male
1723–1797 Female
Siblings (4)
1745–1777 Female
1747– Female
1748– Female
1750–1751 Male
Name Meaning
Irish (Cork and Kerry): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Mainnín ‘descendant of Mainnín’, probably an assimilated form of Mainchín, a diminutive of manach ‘monk’. This is the name of a chieftain family in Connacht. It is sometimes pronounced Ó Maingín and Anglicized as Mangan .
English: from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Manning.
North German and Dutch: habitational name from a farm so named, once in possession of a certain Manno (see Mann 2) and his kin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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