Mary Steele

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Steele was born about 1768, in Holywood, County Down, Ireland, her father, Arthur Steele JR, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Greenfield, was 35. She married Dan Saires about 1810, in Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Dan Saires
1765–
Mary Steele
1768–
Marriage: about 1810

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    World Events (4)

    1798

    Battle of Antrim.

    1798

    The Young Ireland rebellion of 1798 failed.

    1839

    The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.

    Name Meaning

    English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English stel(e) ‘steel’, perhaps used for someone considered as hard and durable as steel, or for a foundry worker.

    English: variant of Stile .

    Scottish: habitational name from one or more of the places called Steel(e) or Steill in Ayrshire, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from Scots steel ‘steep bank, spur of a ridge’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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