When David John Abbey was born on 9 July 1848, in Randolph, Randolph, Cattaraugus, New York, United States, his father, Orange J Abbey Sr, was 49 and his mother, Mary Polly Stanley, was 40. He married Delora Rosette Reeves on 31 December 1874, in Randolph, Randolph, Cattaraugus, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in West Salamanca, Salamanca, Cattaraugus, New York, United States in 1900 and Salamanca, Cattaraugus, New York, United States in 1905. He died on 22 March 1906, in Salamanca, Allegany Indian Reservation, Cattaraugus, New York, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Wildwood Cemetery, Salamanca, Cattaraugus, New York, United States.
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English:
from Anglo-Norman and Middle English abbeye, abbaye ‘abbey’, i.e. a community of monks under an abbot or of nuns under an abbess (Old French abeie, Late Latin abbatia ‘priest's house’), applied as a topographic name for someone living in or near an abbey, or an occupational name for someone working in one.
(of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French abé, abbé ‘priest’. See also French Labbe .
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