When Lewis Dudley was born on 27 January 1734, in Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Robert Dudley, was 27 and his mother, Jane, was 30. He married Frances Aldin on 7 October 1761, in Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died in 1781, in his hometown, at the age of 47.
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Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
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English (West Midlands): habitational name from Dudley in Worcestershire, recorded as Duddeleye, Doddeleye in the 13th and 14th centuries, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd 1) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (southern Ireland): in Ireland, when not the English name, it was adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + dá ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.
Americanized form of French Daudelin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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