When Richard Read Porter was born on 19 April 1864, in Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States, his father, Richard Bennett Porter, was 33 and his mother, Martha Caroline Fly, was 30. He married Johnie H Bowen on 5 February 1891. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States for about 20 years. He died on 20 November 1929, at the age of 65, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States.
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English and Scottish: occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English and Older Scots porter(e), port(o)ur ‘doorkeeper, gatekeeper’ (Anglo-Norman French port(i)er, portur, Latin portarius). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. The name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner ) and Poertner .
English: occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Middle English port(o)ur, porter ‘porter, carrier of burdens’ (Anglo-Norman French portur, porteo(u)r).
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized, of Poorter, status name for a freeman (burgher) of a town, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter. Compare De Porter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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