When Andrew Ring was born on 28 December 1748, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Kingston Ring, was 46 and his mother, Sarah Mitchell, was 29. He lived in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1748. He died on 25 January 1749, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 0.
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English, Danish, German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of rings (from Middle English ring, Middle High German rinc, Middle Dutch ring), either to be worn as jewelry or as component parts of chain-mail, harnesses, and other objects. It may also have arisen as a nickname for a wearer of a ring. This name (of German origin) is also found in Slovenia and in Czechia. Compare English Ringer and German Rink .
Norwegian: variant of Ringen .
German: topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German rink, rinc ‘circle’ for someone who lived at a square or market place; or a nickname for a quick or slight, small person, from Middle High German ringe ‘quick, nimble; small, not noteworthy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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