When Mary Sapphire Hearn was born in 1841, in Ray, Missouri, United States, her father, Joseph Hearn, was 33 and her mother, Eleanor Adamson, was 28. She lived in Collin, Texas, United States in 1860.
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Historical Boundaries: 1846: Collin, Texas, United States
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Irish (Waterford and Kilkenny): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEachthighearna ‘descendant of Eachthighearna’, a personal name meaning ‘lord of horses’, from each ‘horse’ + tighearna ‘master, lord’.
English: topographic name from Middle English herne, hirne, or hurne, from Old English hyrne ‘nook or corner of land’ (i.e. an out-of-the-way, secluded place) or ‘bend of a river’. The name may also be habitational, from Herne (Kent), Hurn (Dorset), or Hirn (Hampshire), with the same etymology as the topographic term. In post-medieval English pronunciation the three forms have converged and the spellings become interchangeable. Hurn may sometimes have been pronounced and spelled the same as the surname Horn .
English: habitational name from Herne in Tottington, Bedfordshire, so called from the dative plural (originally used after a preposition) of Old English hær ‘stone’, i.e. ‘at the stones’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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