Brief Life History of Thomas
When Sir Thomas Green was born in 1610, in Bobbing, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sir Thomas Greene, was 55 and his mother, Margaret Webb, was 22. He married Anne Cox about 1634, in St. Mary's, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died about 1652, in Greens Rest Manor, St. Mary's, Maryland, British Colonial America, at the age of 43.
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- Transcribed: Biographical Sketch of John Henson Kessler; 1923 Who's Who in New Jersey, Cumberland Edition
- The Ark and the Dove Adventurers
- Ewing genealogy
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1637
Historical Boundaries: 1638: St. Mary's, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America *1654: Potomac, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America 1658: St. Mary's, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America 1776: St. Mary's, Maryland, United States [*St. Mary's renamed Potomac from 1654-1658]
Name Meaning
English: either a nickname for someone who was fond of dressing in this color (Old English grēne) or was young or immature, or who had played the part of the ‘Green Man’ in the May Day celebrations, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a village green (Middle English grene, a transferred use of the color term). This is one of the most common and widespread of English surnames. In North America it has assimilated cognates from other languages, notably German Grün (see Gruen ) and Dutch Groen ; compare 7 below. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English: alternatively, from a Middle English personal name Grene.
Irish: adopted for Ó hUainín ‘descendant of Uainín’, a personal name from a pet form of uaine ‘green’, see Honan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Thomas Greene-Colonial Governor of Maryland
Thomas Greene of Bobbing, Kent, 2nd Proprietary Governor of Maryland was an early settler of the Maryland colony and second Provincial Governor of the colony from 1647 to 1648.
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