When Martha Matilda Mary Pierce was born in August 1841, in Hastings, Hastings, Oswego, New York, United States, her father, Rodney Pierce, was 26 and her mother, Mary Pickard, was 18. She married Edwin Heniker in 1869, in Hastings, Hastings, Oswego, New York, United States. She lived in Central Square, Oswego, New York, United States in 1900 and Hastings, Oswego, New York, United States in 1910. She died on 4 June 1917, in Hastings, Hastings, Oswego, New York, United States, at the age of 75.
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English, Welsh, and Irish: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Piers, Peres, Peris, an Old French nominative of Pierre or Per, the French form of Peter . Pierce is especially frequent in northwestern Wales and Lancashire, while Pearce is the more common spelling in the rest of England. In Ireland Pierce and Pearse represent a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
History: Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the US, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
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