When Nellie Martha Deering was born on 22 June 1856, in Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Maine, United States, her father, Capt Charles Deering, was 31 and her mother, Ann Elizabeth Smith, was 29. She married Charles S Jordan on 24 February 1875. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters.
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English (Middlesex and Buckinghamshire): variant of Dearing .
Americanized form of German Döring (see Doering ).
Dutch: variant of Detering .
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