Daily Ancestord. & h.
d. & h. in a pedigree or abstract means daughter and heiress: a daughter who inherited because there was no son.
Genealogical abbreviation lists give d. & h. for daughter and heiress and d. & coh. for daughter and coheiress, used when two or more daughters shared the inheritance. The same lists give s. and h. for son and heir.
So d. & h. tells you the father left no son, or that his sons' lines had died out, which is useful when you try to trace his land or his line.
As seen in a recordPedigree in a published family history
Mary, d. & h. of Thos. Gorrell, m. Jno. Wickes
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