When Malvina Briggs was born about 1878, in Virginia, United States, her father, Briggs, was 30 and her mother, Catherine P. Owsley, was 28. She died about 1948, in her hometown, at the age of 72.
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English: variant of Brigg, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja), the northern and Scottish word for bridge, for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
History: The surname Briggs is found chiefly in West Yorkshire. A family of gentry have held lands at Keighley in West Yorkshire continuously for 500 years. The mathematician Henry Briggs (1561–1631), who invented logarithms, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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