When Elizabeth Higgs was born on 8 October 1779, in Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Lewis Higgs, was 49 and her mother, Catherine Amos, was 40.
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English:
variant of Hicks with voicing of -k-.
variant of Higg, itself from Middle English Higge (a pet form of Hugh), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Higson .
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