Brief Life History of James
When James Hanna was born in 1794, in Kentucky, United States, his father, John Hanna, was 25 and his mother, Mary Pryor, was 25. He married Nancy Council on 15 July 1813. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died in 1863, at the age of 69.
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- Jas Hanner, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Jas Hanna in entry for John Hanna and Julia Gorman, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
- James Hanna in entry for Bridget O Hare, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1796 · Wilderness Road Opens to Wagons
In 1796, the Wilderness Road opened up for wagon use. The route was used by colonial and early settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. It started in Virginia, and went southward to Tennessee and then went north to Kentucky. The main danger of this route was Native American attacks.
1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
Name Meaning
Irish (Down and Antrim) and Scottish: from Gaelic Ó hAnnaigh ‘descendant of Annach’, a personal name of uncertain origin, or from Gaelic Ó hÉanna ‘descendant of Éanna’, also unexplained but well attested. See also Hannan . It has been suggested that the name may also derive from Sheanaigh, a genitive case form of the Gaelic personal name Seanach, but this is untenable. This was one of very few ‘Ó’ surnames to be used in Scotland, a phenomenon which was confined to the Galloway and Carrick region.
English: habitational name from Hannah (Lincolnshire), possibly derived from the Old English personal name Hana or Old English hana ‘cock’ + ēg ‘island’.
English: sometimes in East Anglia a variant of Henney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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