When Zipporah Street was born on 27 August 1737, in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States, her father, James Street, was 29 and her mother, Keziah Haines, was 32. She married Thomas Starr III about 1757, in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 22 August 1805, in New London, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Starr Burying Ground Cemetery, Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States.
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English: from Middle English stret(e) ‘street, Roman road’ (Old English strǣt). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in the main street of a village or town or by a Roman road, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Street (Kent, Herefordshire, Somerset), Street on the Fosse (Somerset), Strete in Blackawton (Devon), Strete Raleigh in Whimple (Devon), or Streat (Sussex). In the Middle Ages the word at first denoted a Roman road but later also came to denote the main street in a town or village.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Strasser and a number of other surnames with similar meaning.
Americanized form of Jewish (from Morocco) Chetrit: perhaps from the Arabic verbal root shṭr ‘to become skillful, dexterous, astute’. The exact origin of the suffix –it is unclear.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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