Brief Life History of Jerusha
When Jerusha Ware was born on 8 January 1704, in Wrentham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Lieut. Eleazer Ware, was 27 and her mother, Mary Hawes, was 24. She died on 24 April 1706, in her hometown, at the age of 2.
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- Jarusha Ware, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jerusha Ware, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Jerusha Ware, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English:
topographic name for someone who lived by or looked after a dam or weir on a river (from Old English wær, wer, Middle English war(e), warre, wer(e), werre ‘weir’), or a habitational name from a place called with this word, such as Weare (Somerset), Weare Giffard (Devon), or Ware (Hertfordshire).
topographic name for someone who lived by a horse pond or fish pond, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English wayour, which became early modern English ware, wear.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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