When Sarah Bickford was born in 1718, in Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Bickford, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Simpson, was 27. She married Joseph Pearl on 28 November 1749, in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 9 October 1776, in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States.
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English: habitational name from either Beckford Farm in Membury (Devon), Bickford Town in Plympton Saint Mary (Devon), or Bickford in Staffordshire. Beckford Farm is from the Old English personal name Becca + Old English ford ‘ford’, whereas the other two examples are derived from the Old English personal name Bicca + ford ‘ford’. The surname is more common in Devon and Cornwall.
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