When Margaret Jane Rowe Rice was born on 14 June 1843, in Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, United States, her father, David Rice, was 69 and her mother, Isabella Caldwell Brewer, was 40. She married Henry Harrison Saylor on 1 November 1866, in Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Union Township, Polk, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Looney Township, Polk, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 3 December 1916, in Morrisville, Polk, Missouri, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Morrisville, Polk, Missouri, United States.
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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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