When Amos Howard Sweet was born on 21 June 1838, in Alburg, Grand Isle, Vermont, United States, his father, Stephen Vanrensselaer Sweet, was 47 and his mother, Sarah Sophronia Straight, was 31. He married Amelia Eunice Joyal on 15 August 1865, in Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Brome, Brome, Quebec, Canada in 1871. He died on 1 March 1919, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80.
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English (Somerset): from the Middle English personal name Swet(e) (Old English Swēt(a) (male), Swēte (female)), or else a nickname from Middle English swet(e), sweyt ‘sweet; pleasing; beloved; attractive’ (Old English swēte, swōt), from which the personal names derive. Compare Swett .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess and French Ledoux ‘the gentle, the sweet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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