Brief Life History of Hulda
When Hulda Hood was born about 1747, in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Hood Jr., was 41 and her mother, Abigail Potter, was 35. She died on 1 February 1749, in her hometown, at the age of 3, and was buried in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English hod, hood, hodde ‘hood’, either for someone who wore a hood (like the medieval folk hero Robin Hood) or who made and sold hoods. In Kent and Sussex the name may sometimes have been confused with Hoad .
English: from the Middle English personal name Hod(e), a variant of Ode or Odd with prosthetic H-; see Ott and Oates and compare Hodson 2.
English and Scottish: variant of Hudd, from the Middle English personal name Hudde, Hutte, which could represent Old English Hud(d)a or its ancient Germanic equivalent Hud(d)o, but is more likely from Anglo-Norman French Hud(de), a pet form of Hugh.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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