When Abby C Boss was born on 15 May 1842, in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Capt Thomas Linscom Boss, was 41 and her mother, Abby Congdon, was 32. She died on 28 June 1878, in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Island Cemetery, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): from the Old French personal name Bos, from ancient Germanic Boso, based on the element bōs ‘bad, evil, wild, angry’.
English: nickname for a hunchback, from Middle English, Old French boce, bos ‘protuberance, swelling’ (compare Bossard 2).
German (also Böss): from a short form of the personal name Borkhart, a variant of Burkhart . This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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