Brief Life History of Isaac
When Isaac Harris was born in 1782, in Astley, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Harris, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Earl, was 37. He married Elizabeth Sherwin from 12 March 1807 to 3 December 1807, in Astley, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters.
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- Isaac Harriss, "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963"
- Isaac Harris, "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963"
- Isaac Harris, "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963"
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World Events (8)
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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