When Maria Pels was born in 1732, in New York County, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Sampson Pels, was 33 and her mother, Marytje Benson, was 30. She married Jeremiah Fowler on 23 February 1761, in New York City, New York County, New York Colony, British Colonial America.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Ernst, Siegfried.
Dutch, Flemish, and North German: metonymic occupational name for a furrier, from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pels ‘fur’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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