When Celestia Ann Durfee was born on 21 September 1847, in Carterville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Abraham Durfee, was 20 and her mother, Ursula Curtis, was 20. She died on 6 July 1850, in Fort Laramie, Goshen, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Fort Laramie, Goshen, Wyoming, United States.
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Altered form of French Durfé: habitational name, with fused preposition d(e) ‘from’, for someone from Urfé in Loire. The surname Durfé is virtually non-existing in France.
History: The name was brought to England by Huguenot refugees in the 16th century. Thomas Durfee, the ancestor of the Durfee family in America, was born in 1643 and came to Providence, RI, in 1660.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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