Brief Life History of Cyrena
When Cyrena Manchester was born on 20 February 1823, in Scipio, Cayuga, New York, United States, her father, Caleb Manchester, was 34 and her mother, Lydia Chidester, was 29. She died on 24 July 1836, in New York, United States, at the age of 13.
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1788–1868 Male
1793–1877 Female
Siblings (11)
1813–1904 Male
1815–1868 Female
1816–1824 Female
1818–1885 Male
1821–1853 Female
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World Events (3)
1825 · The Crimes Act
Age 2
1827 · Slavery Becomes Illegal in New York State
Age 4
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 7
Name Meaning
1 English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire. The early forms, from Domesday Book to the early 13th century, show the first element uniformly as Mam-, and it is therefore likely that this was a British hill-name meaning ‘breast’ ( compare Manchester ), with the later addition of Old English feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’ ( see Field ) as the second element. The surname is now widespread throughout Midland and southern England and is also common in Ireland.
2 Irish: when not an importation of 1, this is an altered form of the Norman name Manville ( see Mandeville ).
3 Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Mansfeld, a habitational name for someone from a place so called in Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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