When Ruth Wakefield was born about 1780, in Wells, York, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Wakefield Jr., was 57 and her mother, Ruth Cousins, was 50. She married Frederick Wakefield on 14 November 1795, in Wells, York, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in Yorkshire and from Wakefield Lawn in Potterspury (Northamptonshire). Both are named from the Old English personal name Waca or Old English wacu ‘wake, festival’ + feld ‘open country’.
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