When Robert Espey was born about 1727, in Ireland, his father, Samuel Espey, was 35 and his mother, Martha Hay, was 35. He married Rachel Bell about 1757, in Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He died after 1780, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States.
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Scottish (Northumberland): variant of Espy .
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of water or marsh edged by aspen trees, from Middle High German, Middle Low German espe ‘aspen’ + -ey, a suffix denoting the presence of water.
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