When Rachel Curlet Pierce was born on 1 April 1800, in Frederick Heights, Frederick, Virginia, United States, her father, Michael Pierce Jr, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Grove, was 33. She married George Huse Shiner on 4 December 1820, in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Whiteside, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Buckingham Township, Tama, Iowa, United States in 1860. She died on 5 March 1866, in Buckingham, Tama, Iowa, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Buckingham Cemetery, Buckingham, Tama, Iowa, United States.
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English, Welsh, and Irish: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Piers, Peres, Peris, an Old French nominative of Pierre or Per, the French form of Peter . Pierce is especially frequent in northwestern Wales and Lancashire, while Pearce is the more common spelling in the rest of England. In Ireland Pierce and Pearse represent a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
History: Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the US, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
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