Brief Life History of Ann
When Ann Moss was born about 1692, in Leigh, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Moss, was 28 and her mother, Katherin Penkeman, was 24. She married Robert Oakes on 29 January 1711, in Leigh, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 20 May 1721, in her hometown, at the age of 30, and was buried in Leigh, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Anne Moss, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Anne Moss, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Anne Moss, "England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996"
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Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).
English: variant of Moyse .
Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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