Brief Life History of Ruth
When Ruth Evans was born on 16 May 1737, in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Robert Evans, was 35 and her mother, Anna Davis, was 36.
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- Ruth Evins, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- NEHG Soc
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Name Meaning
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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