Brief Life History of George
When George Drinkwater was born on 12 January 1702, in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Drinkwater, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Haskell, was 29. He married Elizabeth Parker in 1734, in North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 21 November 1737, in Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 35.
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- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Plymouth MA Land Records 17:30-31
- George Drinkwater in entry for Elizabeth Drinkwater, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
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English: nickname from Middle English drink(en) ‘(to) drink’ + water ‘water’, possibly used of someone who claimed to prefer water to the sour ale he was offered by the ale wife or inn keeper. In the Middle Ages weak ale was the universal beverage among the poorer classes, and so cheap as to be drunk like water, whereas water itself was only doubtfully potable. A 13th-century writer, describing the extreme poverty of the Franciscans when they first settled in London (1224), writes: ‘I have seen the brothers drink ale so sour that some would have preferred to drink water’. Compare French Boileau .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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