When Arthur Harris was born on 11 September 1785, in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Rufus Harris, was 35 and his mother, Lucy Hills, was 33. He married Achsah Warren on 16 October 1808, in Williamson, Wayne, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1785. He died on 25 January 1811, in Palmyra, Palmyra, Wayne, New York, United States, at the age of 25.
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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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