Brief Life History of Philip
When Philip Short Jr was born on 8 March 1714, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Philip Short Sr, was 37 and his mother, Joanna Martin, was 31. He married Lydia Luther on 31 October 1741, in Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 22 April 1805, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 91, and was buried in Stevens Corner Cemetery, Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Elisabeth Virginia Short, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"
- Philip Short, "Rhode Island, Marriages, 1724-1916"
- Phillip Short, "Rhode Island Town Deaths Index, 1639-1932"
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Name Meaning
English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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