When Robert Washington Ferry was born on 3 October 1851, in Sugar Lake, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Edward Ferry, was 47 and his mother, Jane Heneretta Hendershot, was 30. He married Florence Jane Sweet about 1875. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wayne Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 10 April 1910, in Franklin, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
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.
Possible Related NamesAccording to family stories.... there was a Count Ferre at Presque Isle, Pa. (which is now Erie, Pa.) or it could be Presque, Maine. Pierre Ferre was born in France. His son came to the U.S. after ma …
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