Brief Life History of Eunice
When Eunice Spaulding was born on 27 July 1661, in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Spaulding, was 28 and her mother, Hannah Heald Hale, was 22. She married Joseph Parkhurst Jr on 4 November 1686, in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 19 January 1743, in Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 81, and was buried in Old Plainfield Cemetery, Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (43)
- Spalden, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850
- Eunice Parkhust in entry for Hannah Parkhust, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", 1697
Spouse and Children
1661–1720 Male
1661–1743 Female
Children (8)
1689–1770 Male
1691–1771 Male
1693–1766 Female
1695–1779 Male
1697–1697 Female
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Parents and Siblings
1633–1721 Male
1638–1689 Female
Siblings (9)
1660–1709 Male
1661–1743 Female
1663–1725 Male
1666–1747 Female
1669–1726 Male
+4 More Children
Name Meaning
Scottish (Aberdeenshire) and English (Cambridgeshire and Norfolk): habitational name from Spalding (Lincolnshire), from Old English Spaldas, the name of an Anglian tribe who settled chiefly in the fen-lands of Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, + the groupname suffix -ingas. Compare Spafford .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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