When Sarah Ferris was born about 1736, in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Ferris, was 28 and her mother, Rhoda Ferris, was 30.
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Irish and Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fearghuis or Ó Fearghasa ‘descendant of Fearghus’, or from the Scottish-Gaelic form of this personal name, Fearghus (see Fergus ).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire, Eure and Ferrières, La Manche in Normandy, France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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