When Catherine Poston was born on 24 June 1755, in Trinity Parish, Charles, Maryland, United States, her father, William Poston, was 37 and her mother, Priscilla Noe, was 29. She married Hezekiah Dent on 9 November 1769, in Trinity Parish, Charles, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 6 April 1773, in her hometown, at the age of 17, and was buried in Dent Family Cemetery, Newport, Charles, Maryland, United States.
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English:
topographic name for someone who lived by a postern gate, from Middle English postern(e) ‘side door or gate, secret door or passage’; in some cases it would have been a metonymic occupational name for a gatekeeper, and in some may be a habitational name from a place such as Postern in Kent or Derbyshire.
habitational name from Poston in Herefordshire or Poston in Shropshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Possa + thorn ‘thorn tree’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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