SANDS Family Members
Page last updated 16 August 2022.
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- English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English sandes ‘sands’, for someone who lived at or near a sandy place, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Sands in Carlisle (Cumberland) or Sands Cottages in West Hoathly (Sussex). See Sand, of which Sands may sometimes be a plural form or a variant, with excrescent -s. Compare also Sandes and Sandys.
- History: Comfort Sands, a revolutionary patriot born in 1748 at what is now Sands’ Point, Long Island, NY, was descended from James Sand(y)s (1622-95), who emigrated from Reading, Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, MA, and followed Anne Hutchinson to Westchester County, NY, and subsequently RI. In 1661 he settled on Block Island, RI.
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