When Marguerite Vance was born on 11 June 1905, in Leptondale, Newburgh, Orange, New York, United States, her father, Samuel M Vance, was 26 and her mother, Nancy Triphene Dubois, was 27. She married Charles Edward Brink on 20 April 1924, in Orange, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Newburgh, Orange, New York, United States in 1915. She died on 20 April 1993, in Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Hyde Park, Dutchess, New York, United States.
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Scottish: apparently a spelling pronunciation of Vans, a misreading of Vaus (see Vause ), in which -u- has been miscopied as -n-. If true, it is probably limited to the Vans or Vaus family of Wigtownshire. It may be this surname that appears in Ireland from the early 17th century, especially in Ulster, but it could alternatively be the English name in 2 below.
English: if not a transcription error for Vause (a surname well evidenced in Warwickshire and Leicestershire), a variant of Vann , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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