When Susannah Dement was born on 29 March 1745, in Trinity Parish, Charles, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, Chief Justice George Dent Sr, was 54 and her mother, Anne Herbert, was 52. She married William Robey on 12 December 1762, in Trinity Parish, Charles, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 17 August 1784, in Charles, Maryland, United States, at the age of 39.
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Possibly an altered form of German Demant, a metonymic occupational name for a diamond dealer or cutter, from Middle High German dīemant ‘diamond’.
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