Brief Life History of Deborah
When Deborah Coffin was born on 15 July 1676, in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, James Coffin, was 36 and her mother, Mary Severans, was 30. She married Jonathan Folger on 29 June 1728, in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 8 October 1767, in her hometown, at the age of 91, and was buried in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Deborah Coffin, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Deborah Coffin Macy, "Find A Grave Index"
- Deborah, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English (southwestern England, of Norman origin) and French: nickname from Middle English cofin, coffin, Old French cof(f)in (from Late Latin cophinus, Greek kophinos) ‘container, basket; coffer, chest (for keeping treasures, documents, armour, etc.)’. Early bearers of this as a hereditary surname were of knightly rank. Old French cofin was synonymous with coffer, and it may be that Cofin was used to denote a keeper of the (royal) coffer, attested in Anglo-Latin cofferarius. Compare Coffer . The modern English word coffin is a specialized development of this term, not attested until the 16th century.
History: Tristram Coffin came from Brixham, Devon, to Haverhill, MA, before 1647. An important line of his descendants is associated with Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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