When Martha Ellen Hayden was born on 22 May 1854, in Stark, Ohio, United States, her father, Nathaniel Hayden, was 41 and her mother, Elizabeth Lousia Brothers, was 34. She married Amos Nichols on 15 January 1872, in Putnam, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Kalida, Union Township, Putnam, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Union Township, Putnam, Ohio, United States in 1910. She died on 7 October 1919, in Columbus Grove, Putnam, Ohio, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Truro Cemetery, Columbus Grove, Putnam, Ohio, United States.
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Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉideáin ‘descendant of Éideán’ and Ó hÉidín ‘descendant of Éidín’, personal names apparently from a diminutive of éideadh ‘clothes, armor’. There was also a Norman family bearing the English name (see 2 below), living in County Wexford. Alternative spellings include Hadden .
English: habitational name from any of various places called Haydon (Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire), Heydon (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk), or Hayden (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire). Most of the placenames derive from Old English hēg ‘hay’ or (ge)hæg ‘fence, enclosure’ + dūn ‘hill’, though the Cambridgeshire placename has Old English denu ‘valley’ as the final element.
Jewish: variant of Heiden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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