Brief Life History of Sylvania
When Sylvania Terry was born in 1793, in Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Terry Jr., was 36 and her mother, Sarah Ramsdell, was 31. She died on 12 October 1795, at the age of 2.
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
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Name Meaning
English and Irish: from the Norman personal name T(h)erry (Old French Thierri), a short form of Theodoric, which is composed of the ancient Germanic elements theud ‘people, race’ + rīc ‘power(ful), rich’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 493. His name was sometimes taken as a derivative of Greek Theodōros (see Theodore ). An Anglo-Norman family of this name has been in County Cork, Ireland, since the 13th century.
Irish: sometimes an Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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