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From: Ms Betty Fredericks <>
Subject: [Q-R] Stillborn infant, named, Silence (OT?)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 02:53:16 -0700 (PDT)


Hi Bill,
 
I'm curious whether you have found any gravestones during your visits to cemeteries where you have seen an infant's name as "Silence."
 
I have the "history of Billerica, MA,"   and it is divided into the History section and the Genealogy section.    In the Genealogy section there are at least 3 or 5 references to a "stillborn" and that the infant was given the name, Silence.       It was mostly in the very early 1700's, and possibly it was during the 1600's.   *
 
I thought about this over the weekend.    I had always assumed it was a female infant, given that name, but over the weekend I decided it could have been either for a female or a male.
 
Betty                 (near Lowell, MA, USA)
 
 
 
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It was about 21 yrs. ago that I started genealogy,  and I started on the KIDDER name.    As a young child in the 1940's,  I lived with my great-grandmother,  Mrs. Louise (RICE) KIDDER, known as "Grandma Kidder."   I knew her until she passed in 1958.    And, no one ever spoke of "Grandpa Kidder."    I wanted to know why.
When I started researching him,  I discovered he had a direct line back to James KIDDER (1626-1676) of Cambridge and Billerica, MA.     I had lived in Billerica for 20 yrs.  before I found out that my ancestor was one of the first settlers in the town in 1655.         A few yrs. later one of my sisters gave me a copy of the "History of Billerica" as a gift.       It is a great resource,  both for the history of the MA Bay Colony, and for the names of the people living in the town in the 1700's.

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