Brief Life History of Mabel E
When Mabel E Moss was born on 5 September 1884, in New York, United States, her father, Dr Ransom Elbert Moss, was 29 and her mother, DeEtta E Moss, was 30. She lived in Gowanda, Collins, Erie, New York, United States in 1905 and Collins, Erie, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died on 13 May 1988, in Horseheads, Chemung, New York, United States, at the age of 103.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Mable E Mose in household of James Cole, "New York State Census, 1905"
- Mabel E Moss in household of Deetta E Moss, "United States Census, 1910"
- Mabel E Moss in household of Ransom E Moss, "United States Census, 1900"
Parents and Siblings
1854–1932 Male
1854– Female
Siblings (1)
1884–1988 Female
World Events (8)
1886
Age 2
1887 · The Bagley Memorial Fountain
Age 3
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Age 28
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).
English: variant of Moyse .
Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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