When Mary Dudley was born on 22 August 1711, in Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Dudley, was 29 and her mother, Abigail Rogers, was 30. She married Judge Samuel Chase in May 1728, in Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. She died on 12 February 1789, in Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Trinity Cemetery, Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States.
English (West Midlands): habitational name from Dudley in Worcestershire, recorded as Duddeleye, Doddeleye in the 13th and 14th centuries, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd 1) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (southern Ireland): in Ireland, when not the English name, it was adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + dá ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.
Americanized form of French Daudelin .
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