Brief Life History of Mary Polly
Mary Polly Barrett was born about 1727, in Somerset, Maryland, British Colonial America. She died in 1762, in her hometown, at the age of 36.
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Name Meaning
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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