When Catharina Buijs was born in 1742, in Rombout Precinct, Dutchess, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Matthew Buys, was 32 and her mother, Catharina Lassing, was 23. She died before 1750, in Dutchess, New York Colony, British Colonial America.
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Dutch: patronymic from the ancient Germanic personal name Buso, see Bus .
Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a fisherman on a type of ship called a buis. Compare Bice , Bise , and Byce .
French: from buis ‘box (tree)’, in any of a number of possible applications. It may have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a box thicket, or a metonymic occupational name for a worker in the wood.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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