When Henry Moss was born about 1666, in Flixton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Mosse, was 34 and his mother, Anne Royle, was 30. He married Katherin Penkeman on 23 November 1691, in Leigh, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 8 January 1716, at the age of 51, and was buried in Leigh, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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