When Ruth Hope Rich was born on 10 May 1937, in Emporia, Lyon, Kansas, United States, her father, Lawrence R Rich, was 40 and her mother, Vera Nell Moore, was 35. She died on 10 May 1937, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Emporia, Lyon, Kansas, United States.
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).
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