When Harriet Amelia Day was born on 17 February 1840, in Chautauqua, New York, United States, her father, Horace Day Jr., was 44 and her mother, Sarah Chase, was 40. She married James Miner McIntyre on 3 July 1873. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Forestville, Chautauqua, New York, United States in 1900 and Hanover, Chautauqua, New York, United States in 1905. She died on 4 July 1906, in Hanover Center, Chautauqua, New York, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Balcom Corners, Villenova, Chautauqua, New York, United States.
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English: occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairyman or dairymaid’. Originally used only of women, it was later used of men with the sense ‘man in charge of the dairy cattle’. This is probably the most common source of the surname.
English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey. In western England this is probably a pet form of David , but in northern England and perhaps elsewhere also it is a late Middle English variant of Daw, a pet form of Ralph (see Daw , Dakin ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Dea ).
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