When Elizabeth Averill was born on 8 February 1715, in York, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Job Averill, was 45 and her mother, Mary Prebble, was 40. She married Samuel Spinney on 6 June 1761, in York Village, York, York, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in York, York, Maine, United States in 1715. She died on 11 February 1766, in Granville Centre, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 51.
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English:
apparently from the name of the month (April), Middle English averil, Old French avrill, Latin aprīlis, perhaps with reference to freshness of temperament, or youth, or possibly to the changeable weather of the month.
perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Haverhill in Suffolk, with loss of initial H-. The placename derives from either Old English hæfera ‘oats’ or hæfer ‘he-goat’ + hyll ‘hill’. Compare Avery .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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