Andrew Ring

Brief Life History of Andrew

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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Family Time Line

Jonathan Kingston Ring
1702–1774
Sarah Mitchell
1719–1762
Andrew Ring
1748–1749
Jonathan Ring
1766–1816
Pvt Eleazer Ring
1749–1814
Joseph Ring
1751–1796
Sarah Ring
1754–1827
Jonathan Ring
1757–1818
Molly Ring
1760–1788
Elkanah Ring
1762–1763

Sources (3)

  • Andrew Ring, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Andrew Ring, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
  • Andrew Ring, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

Name Meaning

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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