Brief Life History of Robert J
When Robert J Hillhouse was born on 11 May 1851, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States, his father, Elijah Boyd Hillhouse, was 37 and his mother, Ann Bowie Gibson, was 33. He died on 24 May 1851, in Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, United States, at the age of 0.
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English: topographic name from Middle English or early modern English hill + house ‘house on the hill’. In Yorkshire the surname may arise from the name of a farm in Fartown, Pudsey (Yorkshire).
Scottish (Ayrshire and Lanarkshire) and English: habitational name from any of several minor places in Ayrshire and elsewhere in Scotland, probably named with Middle English, Older Scots hill + house ‘house on the hill’.
History: Rev. James Hillhouse, the first minister of Montville, CT, came to North America from County Londonderry, Ireland, c. 1720. His grandson James Hillhouse was a Federalist congressman from CT and treasurer of Yale College from 1782 to 1832.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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