When Nancy Ann Forbes was born in 1752, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Forbus, was 27 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Ferguson, was 27. She married Richard Fincher on 2 July 1772, in Guilford, North Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died about 1831, in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 80.
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Scottish: habitational name from Forbes in Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire, so named from Gaelic forba ‘field, district’ + the locative suffix -ais. The placename is pronounced in two syllables, with the stress on the second, and the surname until recently reflected this. Today, however, it is generally a monosyllable.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Firbhisigh ‘son of Fearbhisigh’, a personal name composed of elements meaning ‘man’ + ‘prosperity’.
History: A family of this name (see 2 above) in Connacht was famous for its traditional historians, compilers of the Book of Lecan.
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