Last name meaning Ferris: This is an Anglicization of the Old Gaelic name O' Fearghusa - a compound of the Gaelic O (meaning grandson or male descendant) and the personal name Fergus, composed of the elements fear - a man and gus - vigour or force...
At other times, a confluence can be the location where two smaller streams or rivers merge to become the source for a new river. This is the case in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the Monongahela River and Allegheny River merge to create the Ohio River.
But the French Lodges contained many gentlemen in easy, and affluent circumstances. The confluence is the point of junction of an affluent river with its recipient. On a small income we must make the world believe that we are affluent, and our life becomes a cheat, a counterfeit, and a sham. It is an affluent of the Raritan, coming into it from the south.