Brief Life History of Sebra
When Sebra Day was born on 17 November 1791, in West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Lewis Day, was 37 and her mother, Sebra Ward, was 36. She died on 5 September 1793, at the age of 1.
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- Sebrah Day, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Sebrah Day, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairyman or dairymaid’. Originally used only of women, it was later used of men with the sense ‘man in charge of the dairy cattle’. This is probably the most common source of the surname.
English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey. In western England this is probably a pet form of David , but in northern England and perhaps elsewhere also it is a late Middle English variant of Daw, a pet form of Ralph (see Daw , Dakin ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Dea ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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