When Edgar H. Hastings was born on 8 October 1856, in Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Henry J Hastings, was 26 and his mother, Eliza M. Jewett, was 24. He married Mary L Schomer on 28 October 1886, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 21 July 1943, in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Lunenburg, Worcester, 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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