Sara Spinney

Brief Life History of Sara

When Sara Spinney was born about 1808, in Kittery, York, Maine, United States, her father, Ebenezer Spinney, was 30 and her mother, Alice "Elsey" Paul, was 29.

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Family Time Line

Ebenezer Spinney
1779–1832
Alice "Elsey" Paul
1780–1856
Ebenezer or Eben Spinney
1800–1880
Mary P. Spinney
1808–1836
Sara Spinney
1808–
James Paul Spinney
1810–1832
Joseph Spinney
1815–1832
Narcissa Spring Spinny
1801–1852
Phoebe Ann Spinney
1806–1830
Lyman Spinney
1812–1892
Sally Ann Spinney
1817–1848
Olive Spinney
1819–
Lydia Agusta Spinney
1824–1896
Frances Jane Spinney
1824–

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    World Events (3)

    1808

    Atlantic slave trade abolished.

    1812

    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

    1820

    Maine is the 23rd state.

    Name Meaning

    English: from Middle English spyn(n)eye ‘spinney’ i.e. a small patch of woodland, clump of trees (Old French espinei ‘place where thorn trees grow’). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by a thicket or small copse, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Spinney Abbey in Wicken (Cambridgeshire).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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