Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Howe was born on 13 June 1788, in New York, United States, her father, Ebenezer Howe, was 45 and her mother, Sarah Bell, was 25. She married Hervey Rockwell on 13 October 1813, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Mount Pleasant, Westchester, New York, United States for about 20 years. She died on 25 October 1869, in Lewisboro, Westchester, New York, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Bedford, Westchester, New York, United States.
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- Hannah Rockwell in household of Hervey Rockwell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Etta M Howe Rockwell, "Find a Grave Index"
- Hannah Howe in entry for Hannah M. Rockwell, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
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1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name pronounced to rhyme with hoe, who, or how, from Middle English hoʒe ‘spur of a hill, steep ridge, or slight rise’. Hoʒe comes from a late variant, hōge, of the dative case of the Old English root word, hōh, literally ‘heel (of a person) or hock (of an animal)’, a common placename element. The regular Old English dative singular, hō, is the source of the placenames Hoo and Hoe and the surname may also be habitational name from a placename consisting of this word, for example Hoe (Norfolk), Hoo (Kent), Hooe (Devon, Sussex), or either of two places called The Hoo in Great Gaddesden and Saint Paul's Walden (Hertfordshire). Hose (Leicestershire) comes from the plural form of the word (see Howes ). Howe may also be from Old Norse haugr ‘mound, hill’, for without other evidence, this cannot be distinguished from howe ‘spur of a hill’ and is certainly the origin of Howe (Norfolk) and Howe Hill in Kirkburn (East Yorkshire). See also Hough .
English: variant of Hugh , pronounced to rhyme with who or how.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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