Brief Life History of Robert E.
When Robert E. Rice was born on 7 February 1858, in Carrollton, Greene, Illinois, United States, his father, Allen H. Rice, was 31 and his mother, Martha E. Haggard, was 27. He lived in Greene, Illinois, United States in 1860. He died on 7 November 1868, in Paris, Monroe, Missouri, United States, at the age of 10, and was buried in Paris, Monroe, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Robert E Rice in household of A H Rice, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Robert E Rice - Published information: Cemetery record or headstone: birth: 7 February 1858; Carrollton, Greene, Illinois, United States
- Robert E Rice, "Find A Grave Index"
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Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized pronunciation of one of the most common Welsh personal names, Rhys, from a form originally meaning ‘rash, impetuous’, also spelled Rys and Re(e)s. See also Reese , with which it is interchangeable as a result of different Anglicized forms of the Welsh vowel y, and also compare Preece and Price . Initial R- in Welsh is voiceless and often spelled Rh-, but in English R- is voiced as in the Anglicized surnames Rees and Rice. Welsh y is a short back vowel /ɪ/. In the medieval period the English approximation of this vowel was either /i/ or /e/, lengthened to /i:/ and /e:/. Subsequent sound changes in English produced the alternative pronunciations represented in Rees, Preece and Rice, Price. The name has also been established in Ireland from an early date.
English: either a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a thicket (Middle English ris, rice, ris, from Old English hrīs, Old Norse hrís), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place called with this word, such as Rise (East Yorkshire).
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English Rys(e) and Re(e)s which when without a preposition could derive from one or other of several Old French and Middle English words, including Anglo-Norman French ris ‘laughter, smile’, Middle English ris, res ‘stem, stalk’, in origin the same word as in 2 above, and Middle English ris, rise, rice, res, Old French ris, riz ‘rice’, perhaps a nickname for a rice dealer or a cook.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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