Brief Life History of Bessie Mabel
When Bessie Mabel Moffet was born on 5 April 1884, in Winfield, Cowley, Kansas, United States, her father, Daniel Moffet, was 38 and her mother, Eva Jeanette Sawyer, was 37. She married John Gregory Boyd on 31 August 1904, in Winfield, Cowley, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 8 August 1956, in her hometown, at the age of 72, and was buried in Highland Cemetery, Winfield, Cowley, Kansas, United States.
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- B M Boyd in household of J G Boyd, "Kansas State Census, 1915"
- Bessie Moffat Boyd, "Find A Grave Index"
- Bessie M Moffat Boyd in entry for Mr Samuel Levi Kechi Boyd, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
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Name Meaning
Scottish, Irish, and northern English: variant of Moffatt .
Altered form of French Maufay, a variant of Maufait: nickname from Old French mau fait ‘misshapen’ (from mal, mau ‘badly’ + fait, past participle of faire ‘to do or make’), used as a nickname for a deformed individual. Compare Monfette .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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