When Elizabeth Parsons was born in 1695, in Hempstead, Queens, New York, United States, her father, John Parsons, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Ludlam, was 26. She had at least 1 daughter with Thomas Esmond. She died on 20 July 1776, at the age of 81.
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English: occupational name for the servant of a parish priest or parson, from the possessive case of Middle English persone, parsoun (see Parson ).
English: many early examples are found with the prepositions (e.g. Ralph del Persones 1323); these are habitational names, with the omission of house, hence in effect occupational names for servants employed at the parson's house.
English: post-medieval variant of Parson , with excrescent -s. Alternatively, Parson may be a shortened form of Parsons.
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