When Rebecca Burrell was born in 1765, in Keedysville, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, Richard Burrell, was 37 and her mother, Susanna Wade, was 33. She married John Melone in 1781, in Washington, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 22 January 1853, in Stanardsville, Greene, Virginia, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Greene, Virginia, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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English:
nickname from Middle English, Old French burel, borel (also birel) ‘reddish brown’, referring perhaps to complexion or hair color. This was occasionally used by Normans as a personal name, perhaps a nickname substituted for the personal name. The word also denoted a coarse woollen cloth of this color, so the surname may sometimes refer to dress, or it may be a nickname for a maker of the cloth, a bureller.
habitational name from Burwell in Lincolnshire, see Burwell .
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