When Jay Willard Richey was born on 17 April 1932, in Saint Johns, Apache, Arizona, United States, his father, Leslie Jay Richey, was 23 and his mother, Mable James, was 16. He died on 17 April 1932, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Saint Johns, Apache, Arizona, United States.
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German: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name based on rīc ‘power(ful)’ (see Reich ), or from the female personal name Rikheit, from rīc + suffix -heit ‘way of being’. This surname is rare in Germany.
Probably also an Americanized form of German Reiche or Ritsche (see Ritchey 2).
English and northern Irish: variant of Ritchie .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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