When Mary Whitaker was born on 3 March 1700, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Whitaker, was 30 and her mother, Mary Squire, was 20. She married Joshua Smith II on 15 February 1722, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 22 July 1764, in her hometown, at the age of 64, and was buried in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Whitacre in Warwickshire or High Whitaker in Lancashire, both of whose names derive from Old English hwīt ‘white’ + æcer ‘field’. The name may also be derived from Wheatacre in Norfolk or Whiteacre in Waltham (Kent), both of which derive from Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + æcer ‘field’. Compare Whittaker .
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