When Lois Thurston was born on 11 September 1775, in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States, her father, John Thurston, was 38 and her mother, Eunice Gott, was 37. She married Jeremiah Hooper on 12 July 1794, in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 30 May 1836, in Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Rural Cemetery, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1789: Hancock, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Hancock, Maine, United States
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English (mainly East Anglia):
from the Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Middle English personal name Thurstan, Thorsten (Old Norse Thórsteinn, Thorsten, Anglicized as Old English Thurstān; see Thorstensen ).
habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Thóri (see Thor ) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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