When John Wisdom was born about 1680, in Petsworth Parish, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Wisdom, was 51 and his mother, Martha Collins, was 37. He married Wisdom about 1705, in England, United Kingdom. He died in 1740, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States, at the age of 61.
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English (Middlesex, Surrey, Hampshire, and Kent): nickname for a wise or learned person, from Middle English wisdom (Old English wīsdōm) ‘wisdom, learning’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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