When Marah Eastman was born about 1676, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Eastman, was 34 and her mother, Elisabeth Hudson, was 30. She married Samuel Joy II on 9 May 1696, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 18 December 1728, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 53, and was buried in Salisbury Colonial Burying Ground, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Estmund (Old English Ēastmund, from ēast ‘east’ + mund ‘protection’). See also Esmond .
English: occasionally a variant of Heasman, a topographic name for a dweller ‘(in the) brushwood’, from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’ + mann (compare Hayes 3).
Americanized form (translation into English) of Swedish Östman (see Ostman ) and North German Ostmann or Östmann (see Oestmann ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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