Brief Life History of Esther
When Esther Clare was born in 1778, in Natchez District, Mississippi, United States, her father, George Clare, was 32 and her mother, Margaret "Margarita" Cooper, was 22. She married William Anthony Antonio Hamberlin or Hamelain on 29 August 1795, in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 2 September 1811, in Greenville, Washington, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Greenville, Washington, Mississippi, United States.
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- Esther Clair, "Louisiana, Marriages, 1816-1906"
- Esther Clare Hamberlin, "Find A Grave Index"
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1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1788 · The First Presidential Election
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
Name Meaning
Irish (Clare, Wicklow, and Wexford): habitational name from Clare in Suffolk (an eastern county of England), the center of a major Norman baronial estate since the Norman Conquest. The English placename probably originated as a Celtic river name meaning ‘bright, gentle, or warm’. The surname is not from the Irish county name Clare, which is either from the surname or from a place called with Gaelic clár ‘plank bridge’. Another Norman surname in the southeast of Ireland was de Clere, from Clères in Seine-Maritime (France), named from the local river.
English and French: from the Middle English, Old French female personal name Cla(i)re (from Latin Clara, from clarus ‘clear, bright, famous’) which achieved some popularity, greater elsewhere in Europe than in England, through the fame of Saint Clare of Assisi (see Chiara ). The English surname seems to have been interchangeable with Clear 1.
English: occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle English cley ‘clay’. The work of medieval clayers involved plastering a framework of interwoven twigs with mud to produce wattle-and-daub work.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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