When Abraham Holman Whitcomb was born on 10 October 1817, in Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Abel Whitcomb Jr, was 35 and his mother, Sophia Holman, was 24. He married Mary Ann Orbiton on 7 September 1843, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Hudson, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1891 and Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1895. He died on 22 September 1895, in Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Hudson, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Whitcombe or Witcombe. Whitcombe in Dorset and Witcombe in Gloucestershire are named with Old English wīd ‘wide’ + cumb ‘valley’; Whitcombe, Isle of Wight, may have the same etymology or alternatively the first element may be Old English hwīt ‘white’. Witcombe in Somerset is named with Old English wīthig ‘willow’ + cumb, and the placename Whitcombe in Devon is from Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + cumb. The surname may also derive from a lost place in Sussex.
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