When Hannah Sharp was born on 14 December 1706, in Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America, her father, Matthew Allen, was 49 and her mother, Rachel French, was 43. She married John Breintnall on 29 October 1724, in Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 8 daughters. She died on 27 August 1770, in New Jersey, British Colonial America, at the age of 63.
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English sharp(e) ‘sharp, quick, smart, acute, keen-witted’ (Old English scearp).
Irish: when not the English or Scots name in 1 above, an Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Géaráin ‘descendant of Géarán’, a personal name based on a diminutive of géar ‘sharp’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Scharf ‘sharp-cutting’ or of any of several other European names with similar meaning.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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