When Sally Woods was born about 1770, her father, Samuel Woods, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth, was 22. She married John Ames about 1786, in Townshend, Windham, Vermont, United States. She died on 20 July 1788, at the age of 19.
English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
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