When Sarrah Martha Edwards was born on 21 October 1821, in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John George Edwards, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Austin, was 40. She died on 21 August 1855, at the age of 33.
English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.
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