When Mary Leigh was born in 1635, in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Leigh, was 19 and her mother, Elizabeth Rowcroft, was 17.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places (in at least sixteen counties, but especially Leigh in Lancashire) named either with the nominative case of Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’ (see Lee ) or with lēage, a late dative form of this word (see Lye ).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 李, based on its Cantonese pronunciation. See Li 1.
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