When Annie Snell Maw was born on 18 August 1861, in Hull, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Maw, was 52 and her mother, Christiana Snell, was 30. She died on 20 August 1862, in Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): from Middle English Maw(e), a pet form of the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Maheu (see Matthew ). Alternative derivation of Middle English Mawe from an Old English personal name Māwa is theoretically possible in northern England. Compare Mew .
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): occasionally a variant of Mowe .
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): topographic name meaning either ‘(dweller by) the meadow’, from an otherwise unrecorded Middle English word mawe, mowe ‘meadow’ (attested in the second element of the Old English placename Dunmow, Essex), or ‘(dweller by) the wet hollow’, from Middle English mawe ‘stomach’ (Old English maga) used topographically to denote a depression which collects water. See also Mowe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesAnnie Snell Maw was born 18 August 1861, in Hull, Yorkshire, England. Her mother Christiana Snel died when Annie was two months old. Her mother developed a sore throat and died the next day on …
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