Brief Life History of Harriet
When Harriet Love was born about 1683, in County Antrim, Ireland, her father, William Love, was 74 and her mother, Janet Walker, was 75. She had at least 1 daughter with Christian Rinehart. She died about 1740, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 59.
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1690
William of Orange (William III) lands at Carrickfergus and defeats James II at Battle of the Boyne.
1692
Exclusion of Catholics from Parliament and all professions.
1714
Catholics hold just 7% of land in Ireland.
Name Meaning
English: from a Middle English personal name derived from the Old English female name Lufu ‘love’, or the masculine equivalent Lufa. Compare Leaf 2.
English and Scottish: nickname from Anglo-Norman French love ‘she-wolf’ or simply ‘wolf’, the word love being a back-formation from the diminutive forms lovel and lovet ‘little wolf’. See also Low 3, from Anglo-Norman French lou, the more usual form of the word.
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhionghuin (see McKinnon ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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