When Robert Clinton Hillhouse was born on 6 December 1884, in Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, United States, his father, Levi Gibson "Gib" Hillhouse, was 41 and his mother, Alcy Ann Neece, was 40. He died on 12 December 1884, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Zion Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Lawrence, Missouri, United States.
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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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