When Lydia Alden was born on 1 April 1751, in Stafford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Noah Alden, was 25 and her mother, Joanna 'Mary' Vaughn, was 25. She married Caleb Thompson on 27 November 1768, in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters.
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English: from a Middle English personal name. This is either Aldwin, Aldin (representing Old English Ealdwine with loss of -w-) or Middle English Alwin with an intrusive -d- (see Alwin ), or Aldan, a variant of the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Healfdene (see Haldane ).
Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead in western Norway, so named because of its situation below a high mountain Alden, from an unattested word ‘high, standing out’.
History: John Alden (c. 1599–1687) was one of the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. He moved from Plymouth to Duxbury, MA, c. 1627. Many of his descendants were merchant seamen, among them James Alden (1810–77), who twice circumnavigated the globe.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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