Brief Life History of Seth
When Seth Pope was born on 13 January 1648, in Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Pope, was 11645 and his mother, Sarah Jenney, was 24. He married Deborah Perry in 1674, in Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States in 1686. He died on 17 March 1727, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 79, and was buried in Acushnet, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Plympton, Massachusetts marriage Records 1741 - 1780
- Seth, Capt. Pope, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
- Seth/Pope in entry for Lemewell/Pope, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English pope (derived via Old English from Late Latin papa ‘bishop, pope’, from Greek pappas ‘father’, in origin a nursery word.) In the early Christian Church, the Latin term was at first used as a title of respect for male clergy of every rank, but in the Western Church it gradually came to be restricted to bishops, and then only to the bishop of Rome; in the Eastern Church it continued to be used of all priests (see Popov , Papas ). The nickname would have been used for a vain or pompous man, or for someone who had played the part of the pope in a pageant or play. The surname is also present in Ireland and Scotland.
North German: variant of Poppe .
German: translation of Pabst .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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