When Charles Curtis was born in 1642, in Ware Church, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Maj. Thomas Curtis, was 43 and his mother, Averilla Jones, was 28. He married Rose North about 1676, in Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died in 1700, in Kingston Parish, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 58.
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English: nickname for a refined person, sometimes perhaps given ironically, from Middle English, Old French courteis, courtois, curtis ‘courtly, refined, urbane’ (derivative of Old French court; see Court 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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