When Lydia Dean was born on 15 February 1767, in Redding, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Dean, was 35 and her mother, Martha Taylor, was 32. She had at least 3 daughters with Thomas Cow. She died on 19 October 1848, in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Hempstead, Queens, New York, United States.
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English: topographic name from Middle English dene ‘valley’ (Old English denu), or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of England named Dean or Dene from this word.
English: nickname or occupational name for the servant of a dean or nickname for someone thought to resemble a dean. A dean was an ecclesiastical official, the head of a chapter of canons or a church official with jurisdiction over a sub-division of an archdeaconry. Though no doubt some deans had illegitimate children, they were officially celibate, and in the main the surname is probably a nickname in origin, similar to Bishop , Prior , Priest , and Monk . The Middle English word deen, dien, dein, is a borrowing of Old French d(e)ien, doien from Latin decanus (originally a leader of ten men, from decem ‘ten’), and thus is a cognate of Deacon .
English: from the Middle English personal name Deyne (or Dene) a rhyming pet form of Reynald (see Reginald ).
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