Brief Life History of Ebenezer
When Ebenezer Fogg was born about 1714, in Hampton, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Seth Fogg, was 49 and his mother, Sarah Shaw, was 46. He died after 1753.
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Family Time Line
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Parents and Siblings
1666–1755 Male
1669–1756 Female
Siblings (12)
1687–1770 Male
1690–1775 Female
1694–1701 Female
1697–1801 Female
1698–1745 Male
+7 More Children
Name Meaning
English (northern): possibly a variant of Fowke (see Foulk 1). It may derive from Middle English fogge ‘aftermath’ (i.e. grass left to grow after the hay has been cut, also applied to long grass in a water meadow), especially in northern England, where the term occurs as a specifying element in minor placenames, but as it is not found on its own as a simplex name, the derivation is doubtful without some supporting evidence. The word fogge, which is probably of Old Norse origin, is still in use as a dialect term in Craven, Yorkshire, and in eastern Lancashire. modern English fog ‘thick mist’ is first attested in the 16th century and is unlikely to be the source of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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