When Hannah Hayward was born on 22 January 1693, in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jonathan Hayward, was 25 and her mother, Hannah Hobart, was 24. She married Joseph Gannett on 21 November 1717, in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 9 September 1731, in Scotland, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 38, and was buried in First Cemetery, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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English:
occupational name from Middle English hayward ‘keeper of the hedges and enclosures’ (Old English hēgweard), a manorial officer in charge of the common fields who protected corn and hay from cattle, theft, or damage, and supervised the harvest.
occasionally a variant of Howard .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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