Brief Life History of Amy
When Amy Harrington was born on 25 November 1764, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Josiah Harrington Jr., was 24 and her mother, Mary Jones, was 18.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Amy Harrington, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
Parents and Siblings
1740–1786 Male
1746–1775 Female
Siblings (4)
1764– Female
1766–1846 Male
1769–1834 Female
1772– Male
World Events (3)
1776
Age 12
1776 · The Declaration to the King
Age 12
1781 · The First Constitution
Age 17
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.
Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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