When Thomas Davenport Dick was born on 26 September 1844, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Spears Dick Jr., was 21 and his mother, Mary Charlotte Davenport, was 22. He married Mary Martha C. Spears on 21 June 1866, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Harrison Township, Pulaski, Indiana, United States in 1890 and Hickorynut, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 September 1917, in Mangum, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Shady Grove Cemetery, Science Hill, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States.
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English and Scottish: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Dick, also found as Dike and Deke, pet forms of Rick (see Richard ). Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was taken to northern Ireland and thence to North America.
English: variant of Dyke .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German dic(ke) ‘thick, strong, stout’, or in the case of the Jewish name from German dick or Yiddish dik ‘fat’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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