When Elizabeth Farrar was born on 7 November 1745, in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Farrar, was 38 and her mother, Mary, was 29. She died before 28 July 1759.
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English (northern): occupational name for a blacksmith or worker in iron. From Middle English fer(r)o(u)r, fer(r)er, fa(r)ro(u)r ‘ironworker, blacksmith’ (Old French ferreor, from medieval Latin ferrator, an agent derivative of ferrare ‘to shoe horses’, from ferrum ‘iron’, in medieval Latin ‘horseshoe’). Compare Ferrier and Farrow .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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