Ann Dudley was born on 1 January 1562, in London, England, United Kingdom. She married Henry Boylston about 1586, in London, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 12 September 1592, in London, Sumner, Kansas, United States, at the age of 30.
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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