When Harriet A Mead was born in 1820, in Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, United States, her father, Aaron Mead, was 25 and her mother, Hassadiah Goodnow, was 30. She died on 22 October 1892, in United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, United States.
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English:
topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English mede ‘meadow’ (Old English mǣd), or a habitational name from one or more of the many places so named, such as Meads in Harford (Devon).
perhaps from Middle English mede ‘mead, alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water’, possibly denoting one who was fond of the drink or who made or sold mead. Compare Meader .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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