When Delphia Elizabeth Day was born in 1770, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, her father, Larkin Day, was 30 and her mother, Delphia Roberts, was 26. She married John Pennell in 1796, in Surry, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Burke, North Carolina, United States in 1850. She died in 1855, in Alexander, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 85.
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English: occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairyman or dairymaid’. Originally used only of women, it was later used of men with the sense ‘man in charge of the dairy cattle’. This is probably the most common source of the surname.
English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey. In western England this is probably a pet form of David , but in northern England and perhaps elsewhere also it is a late Middle English variant of Daw, a pet form of Ralph (see Daw , Dakin ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Dea ).
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