Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Hampton was born in 1711, in Gloucester Township, Camden, New Jersey, United States, her father, William Hampton, was 26 and her mother, Rose Hampton, was 21. She married Ebenezer Zane on 26 August 1731. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 10 December 1756, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, at the age of 45.
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- Mary Hampton, "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956"
- Mary Hampton, "New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980"
- Mary Hampton, "New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980"
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places called Hampton, including the cities of Southampton and Northampton (both of which were originally simply Hamtun). These all share the final Old English element tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, but the first is variously hām ‘homestead’, hamm ‘water meadow’, or hēan, weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of hēah ‘high’. This surname is also found in Ireland, having first been taken there in the medieval period.
History: The descendants of the clergyman Thomas Hampton, resident at Jamestown, VA, in 1630, lived in VA through three generations, multiplying their homesteads as the colony expanded and then branched into SC. This very common English name was brought independently to North America by many other bearers.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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