When William Howe Cuyler Abbey was born on 7 March 1813, in New Albany Township, Floyd, Indiana, United States, his father, Ansel Abbey, was 26 and his mother, Bathsheba Morgan, was 25. He married Mary Eliza Tucker on 20 January 1835, in Floyd, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 28 February 1836, in his hometown, at the age of 22, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, New Albany, Floyd, Indiana, United States.
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1813–1836 Male
1815–1892 Female
1835–1920 Female
1787–1831 Male
1787–1870 Female
1813–1836 Male
1815–1837 Female
1817–1864 Male
1825–1916 Female
English:
from Anglo-Norman and Middle English abbeye, abbaye ‘abbey’, i.e. a community of monks under an abbot or of nuns under an abbess (Old French abeie, Late Latin abbatia ‘priest's house’), applied as a topographic name for someone living in or near an abbey, or an occupational name for someone working in one.
(of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French abé, abbé ‘priest’. See also French Labbe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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