Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Milk was born on 8 July 1791, in Easton, Washington, New York, United States, her father, Jonathan Milk, was 23 and her mother, Sophronia Benson, was 18. She married Isaac Waite in 1808, in Washington, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1870, in Cattaraugus, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Cattaraugus, New York, United States.
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- Mary Wait in entry for Isaac Wait Jr., "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"
- Mary Wait in entry for Isaac Wait Jr., "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995"
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1808
Historical Boundaries 1808: Cattaragus, New York, United States
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
English (Norfolk): nickname from Middle English milk ‘milk’ (Old English meolc). There are many possible reasons for the use of such a nickname, including milk-white hair, the collecting or selling of milk, and of course the drinking of milk – whether or not taken to indicate effeminacy or spiritlessness.
Sorbian: from a pet form of a personal name such as Miłosław, based on the Slavic element mil ‘gentle, dear’ (from Old Slavic milъ). This surname is found mainly in Germanized forms, such as Mielke and Milke .
Probably also an Americanized form (translation into English) of German Milch ‘milk’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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