Brief Life History of Ruth
When Ruth Price was born in 1779, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, her father, Jonathan Price, was 46 and her mother, Hannah Joanna Bonnell, was 45.
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Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhys ‘son of Rhys’ (see Reece ). This is one of the commonest of Welsh surnames. It has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
English: nickname from Middle English, Old French pris ‘excellent, noble, highly valued (person)’.
Americanized form of Jewish Preuss or Preis .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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