When Rebecca Harris was born in 1775, in Georgia, United States, her father, Benjamin Harris, was 21 and her mother, Rebecca Emery, was 50. She married John L. Graves in 1792, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1847, in Clayton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 72.
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English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
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