When Dora Queen was born on 12 December 1880, her father, Commodore Perry Queen, was 35 and her mother, Margaret Webb, was 34. She lived in New Milton, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 4 November 1904, at the age of 23, and was buried in Harrison, West Virginia, United States.
Scottish: shortened form of McQueen .
English: from the Middle English female personal name Quene, sometimes a pet form of Quenill (Old English Cwēnhild, from cwēn ‘queen’ + hild ‘battle’). Early examples of the name are mainly from southern England, especially Sussex, but its currency in late medieval northern England has also been suggested by records from Yorkshire.
English: possibly a nickname from Middle English quene ‘woman; harlot; crone’ (Old English cwēn), but this is less likely than 2 to have given rise to a hereditary surname.
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