When Lydia A. Maxim was born on 5 January 1828, in Wayne, Kennebec, Maine, United States, her father, Seth Maxim, was 42 and her mother, Mary Raymond, was 39. She married George W. Blaisdell about 1850, in New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in New Hampshire, United States in 1870. She died on 17 December 1920, in Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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English: apparently from the (unrecorded) Middle English personal name Maxim of Latin origin (see 2 below).
Romanian: from the personal name Maxim, from Latin Maximus ‘greatest’ (superlative of magnus ‘great’; compare Magnus ), borne by a number of early Christian saints.
American shortened form of Serbian Maksimović (see Maksimovic ), a patronymic from the personal name Maksim (see 2 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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