When Hannah Ricks was christened on 18 August 1771, in Purton, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Ricks, was 28 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Vines, was 28.
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English: variant of Rick , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See also Rickson .
English: topographic name from Middle English rixe, rexe (Old English rixe, a West Saxon metathesized form of Old English risc, rysc ‘rush’) wash. The surname probably originally denoted someone who lived where rushes grew, or it may be a habitational name from a place so named, such as Rix (Devon).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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