When Abraham Hayden was born on 14 November 1818, in Haydentown, Georges Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Taylor Hayden, was 69 and his mother, Mary Katherine Snider, was 45. He married Anna Ella Nesmith in 1844, in Georges Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Wharton Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and North Union Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 1 May 1887, in Hopwood, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Fayette, Pennsylvania, 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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