Brief Life History of Susannah
When Susannah Wales was born on 5 February 1723, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States, her father, Deacon Nathaniel Wales II, was 28 and her mother, Mercy West, was 25. She died on 13 March 1737, in her hometown, at the age of 14, and was buried in Windham Center, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States.
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- Susannah Wales, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Susanah Wales, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Susannah Wales 1723-1737, Windham Center Cemetery Windham, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
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Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Wales near Sheffield (South Yorkshire). The placename means ‘The Welshmen’ and denoted a settlement of Brittonic speakers living on the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia (from Old English wēalas, walas, plural of walh, wealh, originally meaning ‘Roman citizen’ and referring to the native British population, but in Old English this term later came to mean ‘serf, unfree person, foreigner’ or ‘Welshman’). See also Wallis .
habitational name from Wales, the country named from Old English wēalas ‘foreigners’ (especially those speaking Celtic or Romance languages). This meaning of the surname is quite rare.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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