Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Cleveland was born on 25 October 1681, in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Samuel Cleveland, was 24 and her mother, Jane Keyes, was 21. She married William Ward III in 1702, in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 12 April 1745, in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Jane Ward, Death "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Jane in entry for Hephzibah Ward, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jane Ward, Death "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon, Essex, or the North Yorkshire, formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank, slope’ + land ‘land’.
Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland, and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.
History: Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the US, was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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