When Hattie May Nelson was born on 5 April 1881, in Harkers Island, Carteret, North Carolina, United States, her father, Amariah Nelson, was 36 and her mother, Mary Styron, was 33. She married Charles Davis Hamilton on 5 July 1899, in Diamond City, Carteret, North Carolina, United States. She lived in Harkers Island Township, Carteret, North Carolina, United States in 1940 and Harkers Island, Carteret, North Carolina, British Colonial America in 1945. She died on 9 December 1945, in Harkers Island, Carteret, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Harkers Island, Carteret, North Carolina, United States.
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1879–1943 Male
1881–1945 Female
1846–1884 Male
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1880–1950 Male
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English: patronymic from the personal name Nell or Nele, either of which might be a pet form of Elias or less commonly of Niel (from Latin Nigellus). See also Neal .
Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson and also of the Danish, Norwegian, and North German cognates Nielsen and Nilsen (compare Nelsen ). Compare also Neilson and Nielson .
History: The Nelson name was an important one in 18th-century VA, starting with Thomas ‘Scotch Tom’ Nelson, who emigrated to VA at the close of the 17th century from Penrith, Cumbria, where the Nelsons were numerous. Scotch Tom settled c. 1700 at Yorktown, VA, where he became a successful merchant and landholder. His son was sheriff and a member of the VA Council, and his grandson, Thomas Nelson (1738–89), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was governor of VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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