When Hanna Blair was born on 2 February 1840, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Blair, was 40 and her mother, Harriett Helps, was 37. She lived in Hilperton, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Staverton, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. She died on 25 July 1874, in England, United Kingdom, at the age of 34, and was buried in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
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