Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Cornish was born on 12 June 1757, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Lt Joseph C Cornish, was 28 and her mother, Elisabeth Morton, was 24. She married Deacon Artemus Brigham on 23 December 1778. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1846, at the age of 89.
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- Mary Cornish, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Mary Cornish, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
- Mary Cornish, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
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Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from the county of Cornwall, from Middle English Cornish, Cornysh formed on the analogy of English, which was usually Normanized as Corneys. Not surprisingly, the surname is common in adjacent Devon, but it is also established as far afield as Suffolk and London.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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