When George Walcott was born on 3 July 1759, in Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin Walcott, was 29 and his mother, Mary Foster, was 29. He married Sabra Whipple on 11 September 1785, in Arnold Mills, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1759. He died on 28 December 1826, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Peck Cemetery, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of several places called Walcott, Walcot, or Walcote, for example in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire, all named in Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala) + cot ‘cottage, hut, shelter’ (plural cotu), i.e. ‘the cottage where the (Welsh-speaking) Britons lived’. This name is also frequent in Barbados and Jamaica, when emancipated slaves adopted it from the name of one or other of the sugar plantations owned there by English families called Walcott.
History: This surname was in MA from an early date. William Walcott emigrated from England to Salem, MA, in 1637; John Wolcott (1632–1690) is recorded in Springfield, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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