When Hyrum Briggs was born on 1 May 1864, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Briggs, was 37 and his mother, Jemima MaCauley, was 38. He died after 26 August 1864, in Utah, United States.
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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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