Mary Griffin Or Griffing

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Griffin Or Griffing was born on 3 April 1793, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Nathaniel Griffin, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Landon, was 25. She died on 26 September 1794, in Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in West Side Cemetery, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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Family Time Line

Nathaniel Griffin
1767–1845
Sarah Landon
1767–1865
Mary Griffin Or Griffing
1793–1794
Roger Griffin
1796–1822
Frederic Redfield Griffin
1798–1852
Mary Griffin
1801–1878
William Brown Griffin Or Griffing
1803–1820
Nancy Griffin Or Griffing
1806–1807
Samuel Nathaniel Griffin Or Griffing
1808–1810
Griffin Or Griffing
1813–1813
Griffing
1813–1813

Sources (3)

  • Mary Griffing, "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
  • Mary Griffing, "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955"
  • Mary Griffing, "Find a Grave Index"

World Events (1)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

Name Meaning

Welsh: from the personal name Gruffin, Griffin, a pet form of Middle Welsh Gruffudd. In the Welsh border counties this name was introduced directly from Welsh, and in the eastern counties of England by Bretons from France who came over with the Norman conquest.

Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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