When Joseph Back was born in October 1845, in Garrard, Kentucky, United States, his father, Jeremiah Back, was 39 and his mother, Sally Brown, was 28. He married Eliza Hudson in 1873, in Garrard, Clay, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Bryantsville, Garrard, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 2 Bryantsville, Garrard, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He was buried in Nicholasville, Jessamine, Kentucky, United States.
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English (Devon, Kent, Sussex, and Norfolk): from the Middle English personal name Bakke (Old English Bacca). It is of uncertain origin, but may have been a byname in the same sense as 3.
English: nickname from Middle English bakke ‘bat’, of uncertain application, perhaps a nickname for a person with poor eyesight, from the expression ‘blind as a bat’.
English: from Middle English bakke ‘back’ (Old English bæc), hence a nickname for someone with a hunched back or some other noticeable peculiarity of the back or spine, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or ridge, or at the rear of a settlement.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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