When William Richards was born in 1763, in Essex, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John Richards, was 23 and his mother, Millicent Young, was 25. He married Susanna Jeffries about 1785, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 14 July 1837, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 74.
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English: variant of Richard , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Rickards .
German: patronymic from the personal name Richard .
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