When Henry Richins Jr was born on 25 December 1802, in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Richins Sr, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Haines or Haynes, was 33. He married Rachael Twining on 6 August 1826, in Hempsted, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 7 August 1861, in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 58, and was buried in Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Ricun, a diminutive of Rich , itself a pet form of Richard , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. It appears that a dialectally different (Norman or Picard) form of the French name, with medial /-k-/, also survived in England for a time alongside forms with original /-tʃ-/.
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