When Maria Drummond Harris was born on 18 September 1803, in Hanover, Virginia, United States, her father, John Harris, was 49 and her mother, Mary Rebecca Goodwin, was 40. She married Genet Anderson Sr. on 12 November 1821, in Caroline, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Hanover, Hanover, Virginia, United States in 1850. She died on 28 September 1879, in Richmond, Virginia, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Virginia, United States.
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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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