When Abraham Lancaster was born on 20 November 1696, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Lancaster, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Hoyt, was 35.
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English: habitational name from Lancaster in northwestern England, which is recorded as Loncastre in 1086. The place takes its name from the river Lune + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’ (from Latin castra ‘legionary camp’). The river name is probably British, perhaps related to Gaelic slán ‘healthy’, ‘salubrious’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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