When Harriet Herring was born on 20 January 1836, in Duplin, North Carolina, United States, her father, Daniel Herring, was 42 and her mother, Rachel Totevine, was 43. She married Lewis Herring in 1854, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Albertson Township, Duplin, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Glisson Township, Duplin, North Carolina, United States in 1910. She died on 22 February 1914, in Wolfscrape Township, Duplin, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Summerlins Crossroads, Duplin, North Carolina, United States.
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English (London), Dutch, and German: metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, or perhaps for someone who habitually ate herring, from Middle English hering (Old English hǣring, hēring), Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.
German: habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hering .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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