Brief Life History of Jemima
When Jemima Rice was born on 9 March 1752, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Nathan Rice, was 25 and her mother, Mehitable Baldwin, was 20. She married David Lamb on 6 November 1773, in Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 18 April 1838, in Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Old Spencer Cemetery, Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (12)
- Jemima Rice, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jemima Rice Lamb, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jemima Rice, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
Spouse and Children
1739–1814 Male
1752–1838 Female
Children (8)
1776–1860 Male
1779–1830 Male
1782–1808 Male
1784–1791 Male
1786–1846 Male
+3 More Children
Parents and Siblings
1726–1757 Male
1731–1784 Female
Siblings (3)
1752–1838 Female
1754–1830 Female
1756–1829 Female
World Events (6)
1776
Age 24
1776 · The Declaration to the King
Age 24
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 48
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized pronunciation of one of the most common Welsh personal names, Rhys, from a form originally meaning ‘rash, impetuous’, also spelled Rys and Re(e)s. See also Reese , with which it is interchangeable as a result of different Anglicized forms of the Welsh vowel y, and also compare Preece and Price . Initial R- in Welsh is voiceless and often spelled Rh-, but in English R- is voiced as in the Anglicized surnames Rees and Rice. Welsh y is a short back vowel /ɪ/. In the medieval period the English approximation of this vowel was either /i/ or /e/, lengthened to /i:/ and /e:/. Subsequent sound changes in English produced the alternative pronunciations represented in Rees, Preece and Rice, Price. The name has also been established in Ireland from an early date.
English: either a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a thicket (Middle English ris, rice, ris, from Old English hrīs, Old Norse hrís), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place called with this word, such as Rise (East Yorkshire).
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English Rys(e) and Re(e)s which when without a preposition could derive from one or other of several Old French and Middle English words, including Anglo-Norman French ris ‘laughter, smile’, Middle English ris, res ‘stem, stalk’, in origin the same word as in 2 above, and Middle English ris, rise, rice, res, Old French ris, riz ‘rice’, perhaps a nickname for a rice dealer or a cook.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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