Brief Life History of William
When William Rice was born in 1804, in Homer, Homer, Cortland, New York, United States, his father, George Rice, was 25 and his mother, Anna Rice, was 21. He married Elizabeth Betsy Reed in 1844, in McKean, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Keating Township, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. He died in 1881, in Coryville, Keating Township, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Coryville, Keating Township, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- William Rice, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Rice - Company record: birth-name: William Rice
- William Rice, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
1804
Historical Boundaries: 1804: McKean, Pennsylvania, United States
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized pronunciation of one of the most common Welsh personal names, Rhys, from a form originally meaning ‘rash, impetuous’, also spelled Rys and Re(e)s. See also Reese , with which it is interchangeable as a result of different Anglicized forms of the Welsh vowel y, and also compare Preece and Price . Initial R- in Welsh is voiceless and often spelled Rh-, but in English R- is voiced as in the Anglicized surnames Rees and Rice. Welsh y is a short back vowel /ɪ/. In the medieval period the English approximation of this vowel was either /i/ or /e/, lengthened to /i:/ and /e:/. Subsequent sound changes in English produced the alternative pronunciations represented in Rees, Preece and Rice, Price. The name has also been established in Ireland from an early date.
English: either a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a thicket (Middle English ris, rice, ris, from Old English hrīs, Old Norse hrís), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place called with this word, such as Rise (East Yorkshire).
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English Rys(e) and Re(e)s which when without a preposition could derive from one or other of several Old French and Middle English words, including Anglo-Norman French ris ‘laughter, smile’, Middle English ris, res ‘stem, stalk’, in origin the same word as in 2 above, and Middle English ris, rise, rice, res, Old French ris, riz ‘rice’, perhaps a nickname for a rice dealer or a cook.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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