Brief Life History of Jacob
When Jacob Covert was born on 2 August 1719, in New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Isaac Covert Sr., was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Horton, was 33. He married Mary Banker about 1743, in Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 12 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 7 May 1772, in Geneva, Ontario, New York, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Westchester, New York, United States.
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English (Surrey, of Norman origin): habitational name from the Norman hamlet of Couvert in Calvados or from some other locality similarly named from Old French (le) covert ‘the secret corner, refuge, or thicket’. Sussex surname forms with the definite article and no preposition are not nicknames from Old French covert ‘secret(ive)’, as has been suggested, but are either references to ‘Le Covert’ as the place of origin or represent the common Norman practice of substituting le for de in surnames. This surname is now extinct in Britain.
Americanized form of an unidentified Dutch or German name, perhaps Kofoed or German Gobert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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