When Edmund Durfee Sr was born on 3 October 1788, in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Perry Durfee, was 22 and his mother, Annie Martha Salisbury, was 22. He married Magdalena Pickle on 18 October 1809, in Lenox, Madison, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Far West, Caldwell, Missouri, United States in 1839 and Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1845. In 1835, at the age of 47, his occupation is listed as helped to build the kirtland temple in Kirtland Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States. He died on 15 November 1845, in Bear Creek Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Old Nauvoo Burial Grounds, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, 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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