When Mary Cobb was born on 7 February 1707, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Henry Cobb Jr, was 41 and her mother, Lois Hallett, was 35. She died in 1726, at the age of 19.
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English and Scottish (Angus): from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe, Cobba, or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi, which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’, used to denote a large man.
Irish: shortened form of McCobb , a patronymic from the personal name Hob, an English pet form of Robert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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