When Desire Rush was born on 6 June 1816, in Barren, Kentucky, United States, her father, Benjamin Rush, was 33 and her mother, Rachel Springer, was 30. She married Thomas A Stevens in 1831, in Monroe, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Wayne, DuPage, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Township of Elm River, Wayne, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 14 May 1893, in Wayne City, Wayne, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Buckeye Cemetery, Geff, Wayne, Illinois, United States.
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English: from Middle English rishe, rush(e), rosh(e) ‘rush’ (Old English risc), either a topographic name for someone who lived in a rushy place, or a nickname probably denoting someone who wove mats, baskets, and other articles out of rushes.
English: nickname from Middle English rush ‘beehive’ (probably referring to skeps woven from rushes), perhaps denoting a bee-keeper.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruis ‘descendant of Ros’, a personal name perhaps derived from ros ‘wood’. In Connacht it has also been used as a translation of Ó Luachra due to confusion with the Irish word luachair ‘rushes’ (see Loughrey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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