When Billie Jean Higgins was born on 8 May 1933, in Sunshine, Harlan, Kentucky, United States, his father, Albert C. "Bert" Higgins, was 25 and his mother, Mildred L. Ramsey, was 16. He died on 4 February 1934, in Harlan, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 0.
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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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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