Rice2 people

Welsh / Suffolk to Sudbury Massachusetts

The paternal Rice trunk through Brant's grandmother Barbara Frances Rice (1912 London to 1997 USA). Edmund Rice (1594 Stanstead Suffolk to 1663 Sudbury Massachusetts) sailed the Great Migration in 1638 on the Mary and John, settled Sudbury, became a founding deacon. Surname etymology is Welsh (Rhys to ap Rhys to Rice) but the popular Welsh-royalty descent traces to a debunked 1911 self-published book. Edmund's parents in England are unknown.

Origin region: Suffolk, England (with Welsh surname etymology)

2000s

William John Hindman

1945 – 2025

middle child of Boyden William Hindman and Barbara Frances Rice (older brother: Bob, still living; younger sister: Brenda, still living); MARRIED THREE TIMES — (1) Janice Barnes of Decatur Illinois (mother of Brant), (2) Pam Mathis (mother of Jason and Shawna Hindman, Brant's half-siblings), (3) Kathy Hindman, who survived him at his 2025 death in Fountain Hills, Arizona

b. Syracuse Memorial Hospital, Syracuse, New York, United States

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Date unknown

Brant Hindman

dates unknown

eldest child of William John 'Bill' Hindman (by Bill's first marriage to Janice Barnes of Decatur, Illinois); older half-brother of Jason Hindman and Shawna Hindman (by Bill's second marriage to Pam Mathis); spearhead of the Hindman family memorial site

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