When Rebecca Ives was born on 29 March 1725, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Benjamin Ives, was 27 and her mother, Rebecca Merriam, was 23. She married Stephen Mix in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 19 December 1755, in her hometown, at the age of 30.
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English (of Norman origin) and French: from the Old French personal name Ive, Yve(s) (of which Ivon was originally an inflected form), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The name, common among the Normans and Bretons, was originally of Breton origin and derived ultimately from a British Celtic (or perhaps Gaulish) stem ib- ‘yew’. This surname is very rare in France; in North America it may thus, in some cases, (also) be an altered form of the variant Yves.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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