Lydia Edwards

Brief Life History of Lydia

Lydia Edwards was born on 21 May 1745, in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

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  • Lydia Edwards, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
  • American Ancestors

Name Meaning

English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.

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

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