When Eliza Beach was born in 1754, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Barnabas Beach, was 38 and her mother, Sarah Thompson, was 29. She died in 1766, in Orange, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 12.
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English: topographic name from Middle English beche ‘beech-tree’ (Old English bēce) or Middle English beche ‘stream’ (Old English bæce). Middle English beche may be from Old English bēce ‘beech’ or bæce ‘stream’, and without further evidence it is impossible to distinguish these in Middle English.
Americanized form of Alsatian and German Bitsch: habitational name from Bitche (German Bitsch) in Alsace and Lorraine, at the foot of the northern slope of the Vosges.
Americanized form of German (mainly Hesse) Bitsch: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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