Brief Life History of Abigail
When Abigail Sturgis was born on 28 October 1694, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Sturges, was 34 and her mother, Abigail Lothrop, was 33. She married Jacob Lovell on 1 September 1746, in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Abigail Sturgis - birth: 28 October 1694; Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
- Abigail Sturges, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Abigail Sturges, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: variant of Turgoose with prosthetic initial S-, ultimately from the Middle English personal name Turgis, a Norman form of Old Norse Thorgils, Thorgisl, with ancient Germanic -gis replacing Old Norse -gisl. The name ultimately derives from the divine name Thórr ‘Thor’ + an element corresponding to ancient Germanic and Old English gisl ‘hostage, pledge’.
History: Edward Sturgis, from Hannington, Northamptonshire, England, settled in Charlestown in 1634 and moved to Yarmouth, MA, in 1638. His descendants included a revolutionary war soldier and Cape Cod shipmaster, and a Massachusetts legislator.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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