When Mehetabel Wight was born on 6 September 1694, in Wrentham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jonathan Wight, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Fisher, was 24. She died on 3 September 1704, in her hometown, at the age of 9.
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Scottish and English: nickname from Middle English wiht, wight ‘agile, nimble, strong, brave’ (Old Norse víg with the Old Norse neuter suffix -t, for which compare the word scant), or from the corresponding Older Scots word wicht. Possibly sometimes a nickname from Middle English wight ‘living creature; small portion or thing’, or from the corresponding Older Scots word wicht.
English: habitational name from the Isle of Wight. The island is recorded as Vectis (its Latin name) c. 150 AD . Its name derives from a British word, perhaps related to Welsh gwaith ‘turn, course’, meaning ‘place of the division’, in reference to the island's position in the Solent.
English and Scottish: variant of White .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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