Brief Life History of Israel
When Israel Cole was born on 8 June 1653, in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Daniel Cole, was 38 and his mother, Ruth Collier, was 25. He married Mary Paine on 24 April 1679, in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. In 1695, his occupation is listed as member, massachusetts general court; selectman in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 21 January 1723, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
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- U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
- Israel Cole, "Find A Grave Index"
- Israel Cole, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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