Brief Life History of Joanna
When Joanna Bill was born on 26 April 1752, in Bolton, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Edward Bill, was 41 and her mother, Zerviah Fuller, was 36. She married Ezra Whitcomb on 13 June 1774, in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter.
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- Joanna Bruce, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Joanna in entry for Simon Whetcomb, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Joanna in entry for Levinah Whetcomb, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Bille or Bile, either a pet form of the female names Amabil and Sybil or a survival of Old English Bil or Old Norse Bildr.
English: nickname from Middle English (Old English) bile ‘bill, beak (of a bird)’, perhaps used contemptuously of a person's nose or mouth. It may also be an occupational name from Middle English (Old English) bil(l) ‘bill(hook), pruning hook, halberd’, given perhaps to a user or maker of pruning hooks and similar implements. See Biller 5.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a promontory or headland, from Middle English bile, bille ‘beak’ (from Old English bile).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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