When Harriet Pierson Fernald was born on 27 April 1843, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, her father, Alfred B Fernald, was 36 and her mother, Naomi Ann Curtis, was 30. She married Peter Merrill Dickey on 24 July 1867, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Maine, United States in 1843 and Orange, Orange, Vermont, United States in 1880. She died in 1910, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Clarksville, Butler, Iowa, United States.
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Iowa is the 29th state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Altered form of French Fernel, itself a shortened form of a derivative of Old French ferron ‘blacksmith, ironmonger’.
History: This surname was brought to North America from England. It is listed along with its original form Fernel in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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