When Florence Morris was born on 13 April 1892, in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Herbert Morris, was 25 and her mother, Mary Cork, was 27. She married Allen Nye on 12 August 1919, in Crewe, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Crewe by Farndon, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1919 and Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1921. She died on 20 October 1981, in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 89.
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English and Scottish: from Maurice, an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans. It is derived from Latin Mauritius, a derivative of Maurus (see Moore ). This was the name of several early Christian saints. In some cases it may be a nickname of the same derivation for someone with a swarthy complexion.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muirghis, a variant of Ó Muirgheasa (see Morrissey ).
Welsh: Anglicized form of the personal name Meurig (from Latin Mauritius), which was gradually superseded in Wales by Morus, Morys, a derivative of the Anglo-Norman French form of the name (see 1 above).
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