When James Griffin was born in 1680, in Virginia, United States, his father, James Richard Griffin Sr, was 30 and his mother, Mary C Hortman, was 30. He married Sarah Stuart in 1705, in Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died about 1749, in Chowan, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 70.
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Welsh: from the personal name Gruffin, Griffin, a pet form of Middle Welsh Gruffudd. In the Welsh border counties this name was introduced directly from Welsh, and in the eastern counties of England by Bretons from France who came over with the Norman conquest.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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