Sara Higgins was born in 1628, in Totnes, Devon, England, United Kingdom as the daughter of Willyam Higgons. She married Nicholas Reeve on 6 January 1656, in Totnes, Devon, England, United Kingdom. She died in 1657, in her hometown, at the age of 29, and was buried in Totnes, Devon, England, United Kingdom.
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Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking, sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr). Compare McGuigan .
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Higgin, itself either a Lancashire variant of Huggin (from a pet form of Hugh ), or a variant of Hickin (from a pet form of Richard ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See Hick and compare Higson .
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