When Sarah or Sally Preece was born on 18 June 1781, in Lugwardine, Herefordshire, England, her father, Thomas Preeze, was 30 and her mother, Ann Badham, was 26. She married John Taysom on 17 November 1817, in Lugwardine, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died in January 1859, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77.
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Welsh (especially Herefordshire):
Anglicized form of the patronymic ap Rhys, also spelled ap Res ‘son of Rhys’. Preece is interchangeable with Price , the more common pronunciation of the name.
habitational name either from Prees in Shropshire or Preese in Lancashire. Both placenames derive from Proto-Welsh prês ‘brushwood, copse, grove’ (Welsh prys). Confusion between this name and 1 is likely.
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