Brief Life History of Mercy
When Mercy Day was born on 21 February 1769, in West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Ezekiel Day, was 36 and her mother, Catharine Gaylord, was 31. She died on 8 October 1769, at the age of 0, and was buried in Old Meadow Cemetery, West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Mercy Day, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Marcy Day, "Find A Grave Index"
- Marcy Day, "Massachusetts, Springfield Vital Records, 1638-1887"
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Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairyman or dairymaid’. Originally used only of women, it was later used of men with the sense ‘man in charge of the dairy cattle’. This is probably the most common source of the surname.
English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey. In western England this is probably a pet form of David , but in northern England and perhaps elsewhere also it is a late Middle English variant of Daw, a pet form of Ralph (see Daw , Dakin ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Dea ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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