Brief Life History of Jonathan
When Jonathan Hayden was born on 19 May 1640, in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Hayden, was 33 and his mother, Susannah, was 26. He married Elizabeth Lee Ladd on 20 February 1669, in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 20 May 1718, in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 78.
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- Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001; Birth record of Jonathan Heiden 19 Mar 1640 and Hanna Heiden 2 Sep 1642
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Jonathan Hayden, "Find A Grave Index"
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Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉideáin ‘descendant of Éideán’ and Ó hÉidín ‘descendant of Éidín’, personal names apparently from a diminutive of éideadh ‘clothes, armor’. There was also a Norman family bearing the English name (see 2 below), living in County Wexford. Alternative spellings include Hadden .
English: habitational name from any of various places called Haydon (Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire), Heydon (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk), or Hayden (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire). Most of the placenames derive from Old English hēg ‘hay’ or (ge)hæg ‘fence, enclosure’ + dūn ‘hill’, though the Cambridgeshire placename has Old English denu ‘valley’ as the final element.
Jewish: variant of Heiden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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