Brief Life History of Abagail
When Abagail Cheney was born on 18 December 1744, in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Cheney, was 41 and her mother, Hannah Stevens, was 40. She married Daniel Bartlet in 1768, in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters.
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- Abigail Chaney, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Abagail Cheney, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Abagail Cheney in entry for Susannah Bartlet, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
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Name Meaning
English: variant of Chaney with the same etymology as in 2 below.
French: topographic name for someone who lived by or in an oak wood, from Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’ (from chesne ‘oak’), or a habitational name from any of several places called (Le) Cheney, e.g. in Haute-Savoie, named with this word. Compare Chesney .
French Canadian: altered form of French Chesnay or Chenay, topographic names with the same meaning and etymology as in 2 above, or habitational names from (Le) Chesnay or (Le) Chenay, names of several places in the northwestern part of France, based on Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’. Compare Chenette and Chenier 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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