Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Pemberton was born on 18 March 1685, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Dr Thomas Pemberton, was 32 and her mother, Hannah Philips, was 30. She married John Plaisted, Jr. on 15 October 1707, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1685. She died about 1762, at the age of 78.
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- Jane Pemberton, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jane Pemberton, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Jane Pemberton, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Greater Manchestercalled Pemberton, from Celtic penn ‘hill, head’ + Old Englishbere ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: There seem to have been several families called de Pemberton in theWigan area of Manchester, England, as early as the beginning of the 13th century, notably thatof Adam de Pemberton, a substantial landowner Three Quaker brothers named Pemberton were born in Philadelphia: Israel (born 1715), James (born 1723), and John (born 1727); Israel and James became wealthy merchants and philanthropists.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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