When Martha Whelpley was born about 1763, in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Darling Whelpley, was 25 and her mother, Abigail Peck, was 27.
English: habitational name from Whelpley Hill in Ashley Green, Buckinghamshire or from any of the places called Whelpley in Hailsham, Sussex, and Whiteparish, Wiltshire, all named with Old English hwelp ‘whelp, cub, young animal’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’.
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