When Ethel Deane Hastings was born on 27 October 1875, in Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Abijah Hastings, was 42 and her mother, Mary Anna Deane, was 36. She married James Lewis Todd on 25 June 1902, in Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. In 1902, at the age of 27, her occupation is listed as bookkeeper in Massachusetts, United States. She died on 22 March 1956, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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English and Scottish: habitational name from Hastings (Sussex), near which the English army was defeated by the Normans in 1066. The placename derives from an Old English personal name Hǣsta + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas. In the latter part of the 12th century, at the time of William the Lion, the surname was taken to Scotland, where it assimilated instances of the native Scottish surname Harestane.
English: variant of Hasting with Middle English genitival -s.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistín ‘descendant of Oistín’, the Gaelic form of the personal name Augustine (see Austin ).
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