When Isabelle Moses was born on 3 March 1843, in Coshocton, Coshocton, Ohio, United States, her father, Simon Moses, was 40 and her mother, Katherine Ann Edie, was 35. She married Jacob A Speas on 25 March 1866, in Owen, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1920 and Jefferson Township, Owen, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 4 November 1922, in Owen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Arney, Jefferson Township, Owen, Indiana, United States.
Jewish, Welsh, African American, and African (mainly Nigeria): from the Biblical personal name borne by the Israelite leader who led the Israelites out of Egypt, as related in the Book of Exodus. The Hebrew form of the name is Moshe . It is probably of Egyptian origin, from a short form of an ancient Egyptian personal name such as Rameses or Tutmosis, meaning ‘conceived (by a god)’. However, very early in its history the name acquired a folk etymology, being taken as a derivative of the Hebrew root verb mshh ‘extract or draw (something), e.g. from water’ and was associated with a story of the infant Moses being discovered among the bullrushes by Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus 2: 1-10). As a Welsh surname, it was adopted among Dissenter families in the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, for example Italian Moise , Hungarian Mózes (see Mozes ), Assyrian/Chaldean Moshe , Arabic Musa .
English: variant of Moss , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: variant of Moyses, a Cornish personal name derived from Middle English Moises, a vernacular form of Moses (see 1 above).
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