When Nancy Nerche Harris was born in 1807, in Cherokee, Georgia, United States, her father, James Harris, was 32 and her mother, Lucy Luvica Fields, was 40. She married Walter Scott Adair on 16 November 1824, in Etowah, Bartow, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 9 March 1884, in Stilwell, Adair, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Italy.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Napoleon abdicated his throne and Italy was broken up into small kingdoms.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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