When Sarah Higbee was born in 1778, in Peldon, Essex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Higbee, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Driver, was 30.
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English (London): perhaps a habitational name, but no place of this name is known in Britain. The proposed etymology from an Old English personal name, Higbert, is equally doubtful.
History: The name was brought to North America in the 1640s from Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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