When Joseph Rich was born on 16 April 1786, in Virginia Hills, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Rich, was 15 and his mother, Ann Pool, was 24. He married Nancy O'Neal on 23 June 1808, in Boone, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Davis, Utah, United States in 1850 and Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 23 July 1866, in Paris, Oneida, Idaho, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Paris Cemetery, Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesJoseph Rich spent his entire life living on the American frontier. The eldest child of Thomas Rich and Ann Poole, he was born 16 April 1786. According to a family history compiled by great granddaught …
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