Brief Life History of Mary Ethel
When Mary Ethel Starbuck was born on 15 April 1875, in Turners Falls, Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Robert Macy Starbuck, was 30 and her mother, Lucy Sophia Gough, was 27. She lived in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States in 1880. She died in February 1944, at the age of 68.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Mary E Starbuck in household of Robert M Starbuck, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mary E Starbuck, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
Parents and Siblings
1844–1927 Male
1847–1927 Female
Siblings (6)
1872–1952 Male
1873–1964 Female
1875–1944 Female
1881– Male
1883–1899 Female
+1 More Child
World Events (8)
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
Age 1
1876 · The Battle of Little Bighorn
Age 1
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 21
Name Meaning
English: variant of Tarbuck + a prosthetic S-.
History: The Starbucks chain of coffee houses is named after the first mate of the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Melville deliberately used a genuine whaling surname from Nantucket. It was taken to America by Edward Starbuck, a man from Derbyshire, in the 1630s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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