When Erastus Ripley was born on 17 June 1770, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joshua Ripley, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Lothrop, was 39. He married Elizabeth Sherman on 8 May 1798. He died on 17 November 1843, in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 73, and was buried in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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English: habitational name from Ripley (Derbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Yorkshire). The Hampshire and Surrey placenames derive from Old English ripel, rippel ‘strip of land’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Yorkshire placename probably derives from the Anglian tribe name Hrype + Old English lēah. The Derbyshire placename may derive from Old English ripel, rippel or the Anglian tribe name Hrype + Old English lēah.
History: William Ripley (died 1656) came from Wymondham, Norfolk, England, to Hingham, MA, in 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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