Brief Life History of Marah
When Marah Eastman was born about 1674, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Eastman, was 32 and her mother, Elisabeth Hudson, was 28. She married Samuel Joy Jr 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 28 August 1728, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Salisbury Colonial Burying Ground, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910
- Marah Joy, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
- Marrah in entry for /joy Joy, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
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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