When Rebecca Lou Moore was born on 24 March 1947, in Hays, Ellis, Kansas, United States, her father, Harold Thomas M Moore, was 30 and her mother, Bernice Marie Henderson, was 27. She died on 29 November 1960, in El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States, at the age of 13.
English: from Middle English more ‘moor, marsh, fen’ (Old English mōr), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in such a place, or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word, as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire.
English (of Norman origin): ethnic name from Old French more ‘Moor’, either someone from North Africa or, more often, a nickname for someone thought to resemble a Moor. Compare Morrell and Moreau .
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English personal name More (Old French More, Maur, Latin Maurus), originally denoting either ‘Moor’ or someone with a swarthy complexion (compare Morrell , Morrin , Morris , and sense 2 above). There was a 6th-century Christian saint of this name.
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