When Ernest Raymond Briggs Sr. was born on 19 June 1895, in Bangall, Stanford, Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Alexander Monnier, was 14 and his mother, Cora L Mott, was 31. He married Mattie Lorene Hipp on 28 August 1917, in Bexar, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States for about 15 years and Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. He died on 16 July 1978, in San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 83.
English: variant of Brigg, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja), the northern and Scottish word for bridge, for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
History: The surname Briggs is found chiefly in West Yorkshire. A family of gentry have held lands at Keighley in West Yorkshire continuously for 500 years. The mathematician Henry Briggs (1561–1631), who invented logarithms, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
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