Brief Life History of Dinah
When Dinah Whitney was born on 12 July 1727, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Whitney, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Barrett, was 34. She married Elijah Livermore on 2 January 1756, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 30 September 1759, in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 32.
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- Dinah Whitney Livermore, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dinah Livermore, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Dinah Livermore in entry for Abigail Livermore, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Whitney in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English ēg ‘island, piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwītan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwīta (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwīt ‘white’. The name may also derive from Whitney (now Whitney Wood) in Stevenage (Hertfordshire), probably named from Old English hwītan ‘white’ + (ge)hæge ‘enclosure’.
History: John Whitney came from London, England, to Watertown, MA, in 1635, and had numerous prominent descendents.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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