Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Hovey was born on 23 March 1714, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Hovey, was 38 and her mother, Mehitable Safford, was 31. She died after 1757, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Mary Hovey, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Mary Hovey, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Hovey - christening: 23 May 1714; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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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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