When Menerva or Minerva Hatch was born on 2 August 1824, in Bristol, Addison, Vermont, United States, her father, Josephus Hatch, was 23 and her mother, Melinda Bradford Durfee, was 18. She died in 1824, at the age of 0.
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English: habitational name from Hatch (Bedfordshire, Devon, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire), Hacche in South Molton (Devon), or else a topographic name from residence near a hatch, a gate leading to a forest or sometimes a sluice-gate, from Middle English hacche ‘gate’ (Old English hæcce, Kentish Old English hec(c)). This name has been in Ireland since the 17th century, associated with County Meath and the nearby part of Louth.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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