When Silas Allen Terry was born on 21 January 1851, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, William Reynolds Terry, was 38 and his mother, Mary Allen Phillips, was 35. He died on 1 April 1853, in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 2.
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English and Irish: from the Norman personal name T(h)erry (Old French Thierri), a short form of Theodoric, which is composed of the ancient Germanic elements theud ‘people, race’ + rīc ‘power(ful), rich’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 493. His name was sometimes taken as a derivative of Greek Theodōros (see Theodore ). An Anglo-Norman family of this name has been in County Cork, Ireland, since the 13th century.
Irish: sometimes an Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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