When Margaret Bright was born on 12 September 1882, in Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Lerch Bright, was 31 and her mother, Margaret McDonald Smith, was 22. She died on 6 August 1883, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States.
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1850–1905 Male
1860–1938 Female
1880–1926 Male
1882–1883 Female
English: usually a nickname from Middle English bright ‘bright, good-looking, fresh-faced’ (Old English beorht ‘bright, shining’).
English: perhaps occasionally from an unrecorded Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Briht, Beorht, from a short form of any of several Old English personal names of which beorht was the first element, such as Beorhtrīc ‘bright’ + ‘powerful’. Compare Bert .
Americanized form of German Brecht .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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