Brief Life History of Albert Merit Or Merril
When Albert Merit Or Merril Pritchett was born on 2 January 1879, in Christian, Illinois, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Pritchett, was 48 and his mother, Rachel Nickle, was 36. He died on 6 June 1880, in Barry, Missouri, United States, at the age of 1.
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- Albert Poetchette in household of Rachel Poetchette, "United States Census, 1880"
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhisiart ‘son ofRichard’. Compare Pritchard .
English (Midlands): from a diminutive of Middle English prik(e), prich ‘point’, ‘prick’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of any of various pointed instruments, or a nickname for a tall, thin man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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