Name origins ARETHUS

NAME ORIGINS
by Julie Helen Otto of NEHGS  newsletter.

Arethusa (f): A Spring. A Nymph.(Century Encyclopaedia of Names, 1905).  

 ARETHUSA BIGELOW (1786-1811), daughter of Andrew & Sarah (Fawcett) Bigelow of Boylston, Mass...  the name was sometimes abbreviated to THUSA.