Brief Life History of Edna
When Edna Hester was born in 1895, in Lexington, Lee, Texas, United States, her father, Hugo Henry Hester, was 36 and her mother, Annie Margaret Riggs, was 20. She died in 1895, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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Name Meaning
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous beech tree, Middle Low German hēster, Middle High German heister ‘young tree (especially beech or oak)’. Compare Heister .
English: variant of Easter with prosthetic H-.
Irish (Mayo and Roscommon): possibly a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistir ‘descendant of Oistir’, a personal name of unexplained etymology. However, without any early bearers in Gaelic sources, it may simply be the English name in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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