Brief Life History of Alice M.
Alice M. Ferry was born in 1891, in Sugar Lake, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States. She died in 1892, in her hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- U.S. Find a Grave Index 1600-Current
- Headstone
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearadhaigh ‘descendant of Fearadhach’, a personal name from an adjective derived from fear ‘man’. This surname is also Anglicized Farry .
English: metonymic occupational name for a ferryman, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ferry crossing on a river, or from a place so named, such as Ferrybridge, Yorkshire. From Middle English feri(e) ‘ferry’ (Old Norse ferja, cognate with Old English ferian ‘to carry’).
English: habitational name from Ferryhill, Durham, recorded as Feriec. 1125 and Ferye on the Hill in 1316. The place is named with Old English fergen ‘wooded hill’ with the later addition of Middle English hil ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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