Brief Life History of Jonathan
When Jonathan Cole was born on 20 August 1709, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Ambrose Cole, was 39 and his mother, Silence Ensign Wade, was 38. He married Sarah Vinal on 8 January 1732, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 30 April 1772, in his hometown, at the age of 62, and was buried in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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Name Meaning
English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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