When Richard David Sorrell was born about 1707, in Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John Sorrell III, was 9 and his mother, Mary Coleman, was 9. He married Mary Elizabeth Wilburn in 1729, in Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died about 1744, at the age of 39.
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English (Middlesex and Essex): nickname for someone with reddish-brown hair, from Middle English and Old French sorel ‘reddish-brown, chestnut-colored’ (see Sorel ).
Altered form of French Canadian Sorel 2 and, in some cases, possibly also of French Sorel 1, a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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