When Mary Helm was born in 1759, in West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States, her father, John Helm, was 22 and her mother, Deliah Cheseliah Bosley, was 14. She married Lewis Lubies about 1779.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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English (Lancashire): from Old English helm ‘protection, covering’ (in later northern English dialects, ‘cattle shelter, barn’). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by or worked at a barn, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Helme in Meltham (Yorkshire).
English: variant of Elm with prosthetic H-.
German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of helmets, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch helm.
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