Brief Life History of John
When John Hovey was born on 6 July 1718, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Hovey, was 42 and his mother, Mehitable Safford, was 35. He died on 14 August 1719, in his hometown, at the age of 1.
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- Legacy NFS Source: John Hovey - birth: ; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
- Jno Hovey, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- John Hovey, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the personal name Hwfa, of uncertain origin. The surname is more frequently found in the explicit patronymic form ap Hwfa ‘son of Hwfa’ (see Povey ) and forms with and without ap were still interchangeable in the 16th and 17th centuries.
English: perhaps from an unrecorded Old English personal name Hofig, a pet form of Old English Hofa (of uncertain origin but apparently from hof ‘temple’) + a hypocoristic suffix -ig. However, the absence of Middle English evidence for either the personal name or the surname leaves this explanation in doubt.
Americanized form of Dutch Hove .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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