Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Phelps was born on 29 March 1761, in Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Phelps IV, was 40 and her mother, Elisabeth Hyett, was 40. She died on 8 December 1762, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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- Mary Phelps, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Phelps -
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Name Meaning
Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .
History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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