When Marytje Vermilyea was born in 1684, in New York County, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Johannes Vermilyea, was 52 and her mother, Aeltje Waldron, was 33. She married Peter Kierse about 1715, in Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America. She died before 23 May 1730, in Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America.
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Americanized form of French Vermeille (or perhaps of some other similar French surname): from the feminine form of Vermeil, from the (Old) French adjective vermeil ‘bright red’, which in the Middle Ages also denoted purple fabrics; hence a nickname denoting someone with red complexion or a metonymic occupational name for someone who sells purple fabrics. Compare Vermilya .
History: This surname is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors. Its first bearer(s) came to NY from the Netherlands in the middle of the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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