When Rickie Morton Rich was born on 29 April 1950, in Asheboro, Randolph, North Carolina, United States, his father, Aubrey Washington Rich, was 24 and his mother, Virgie Mussette Morton, was 27. He died on 11 March 1958, in Asheboro, Randolph, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 7, and was buried in Randolph, North Carolina, United States.
English: nickname for a wealthy man (or perhaps in some cases an ironic nickname for a pauper), from Middle English, Old French riche ‘rich, wealthy’, a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to ancient Germanic rīc ‘power(ful)’.
English: from the Middle English personal name Rich, a pet form of any of the post-Conquest names beginning in Rich-, such as Richer and especially Richard . Compare Rick .
English: either a topographic name from Middle English riche(Old English ric) ‘stream’, signifying one who lived beside a stream, as at Glynde Reach (Sussex), or perhaps a habitational name from the (now lost) village of Riche (Lincolnshire).
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