When Rachel Willis was born about 1747, in Newberry Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Henry Willis, was 44 and her mother, Mary Unknown, was 40. She married Samuel Jones on 19 August 1768, in York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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1747– Female
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variant of Will with genitival -s. This surname represents a retention of the second syllable, introduced by the addition of the Middle English genitival suffix -es, which would have been pronounced in the Middle English period. Compare Wills . In some cases the name is a variant of Willey , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
variant of Willows .
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