When Mary Besse was born in 1753, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Silas Besse, was 22 and her mother, Bridget Bryell Beaslet, was 79. She married Moses Waring / Warren on 5 October 1774, in Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died in 1837, at the age of 84.
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French: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Occitan bès ‘birch tree’, or a habitational name from (La) Besse, the name of several places mainly in southern France, named from the same word (ultimately from Gaulish betu).
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