When Harrison Hall was born on 28 May 1840, in Belmont, Waldo, Maine, United States, his father, William F Hall, was 27 and his mother, Lucy McAllister, was 28. He lived in Camden, Knox, Maine, United States in 1860 and Lincolnville, Waldo, Maine, United States in 1900. He died on 18 April 1916, in Searsmont, Waldo, Maine, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Marriner Cemetery, Searsmont, Waldo, Maine, United States.
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1813–1878 Male
1813–1846 Female
1840–1916 Male
1841–1910 Female
1843–1913 Male
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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