When Cecilia Howe was born on 24 September 1840, in Wick, Glamorgan, Wales, her father, William Howe, was 41 and her mother, Jane Jenkin, was 34. She married Lewis Griffiths on 14 November 1863, in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in St Brides Major, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1861 and Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1880. She died on 7 August 1932, in Benson, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 91.
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English: topographic name pronounced to rhyme with hoe, who, or how, from Middle English hoʒe ‘spur of a hill, steep ridge, or slight rise’. Hoʒe comes from a late variant, hōge, of the dative case of the Old English root word, hōh, literally ‘heel (of a person) or hock (of an animal)’, a common placename element. The regular Old English dative singular, hō, is the source of the placenames Hoo and Hoe and the surname may also be habitational name from a placename consisting of this word, for example Hoe (Norfolk), Hoo (Kent), Hooe (Devon, Sussex), or either of two places called The Hoo in Great Gaddesden and Saint Paul's Walden (Hertfordshire). Hose (Leicestershire) comes from the plural form of the word (see Howes ). Howe may also be from Old Norse haugr ‘mound, hill’, for without other evidence, this cannot be distinguished from howe ‘spur of a hill’ and is certainly the origin of Howe (Norfolk) and Howe Hill in Kirkburn (East Yorkshire). See also Hough .
English: variant of Hugh , pronounced to rhyme with who or how.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
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