Maria Harley

25 July 1773–16 March 1851 (Age 77)
Salford Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States

The Life of Maria

When Maria Harley was born on 25 July 1773, in Salford Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Rudolph Becker Harley III, was 24 and her mother, Barbara Bach, was 22. She married David Grubb on 7 June 1792. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in North Coventry Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. She died on 16 March 1851, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

David Grubb
1768–1852
Maria Harley
1773–1851
Marriage: 7 June 1792
Rudolf Grubb
1790–1800
Moses Grubb
1812–1875
Abraham Grubb
1794–1866
Mary Grubb
1796–1883
Isaac Grubb
1798–1798
Peter Grubb
1801–1882
Samuel Grubb
1803–1885
Hana Grubb
1806–1853
Beke Grubb
1810–1811
Rebecca Grubb
1810–1811
Grubb
1813–1813

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
7 June 1792
children

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Parents and Siblings

siblings

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World Events (8)

1776

Age 3

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776

Age 3

The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

Age 21

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

Name Meaning

1 English (now mainly in Scotland; also West Midlands and Welsh border): habitational name from places in Shropshire and West Yorkshire, so named from Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’ or hara ‘hare’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. In some cases the name may be topographic.2 Irish: when not of English origin, this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarghaile ‘descendant of Earghal’, a variant of the personal name Fearghal without the initial F- ( see Farrell ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Sources (3)

  • Mary Grubb in household of David Grubb, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Mary Grubb in entry for David Grubb, "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950"
  • Mary in entry for David Grubb, "Pennsylvania Deaths and Burials, 1720-1999"

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