When Hannah Wakefield was born on 23 January 1773, in County Down, Ireland, her father, Joseph Wakefield, was 28 and her mother, Hannah Christy, was 24. She married John Pim on 19 October 1794, in Tullylish, County Down, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 12 June 1847, in Belfast, Ireland, at the age of 74, and was buried in Belfast, Ireland.
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Battle of Antrim.
The Young Ireland rebellion of 1798 failed.
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.
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in Yorkshire and from Wakefield Lawn in Potterspury (Northamptonshire). Both are named from the Old English personal name Waca or Old English wacu ‘wake, festival’ + feld ‘open country’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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