Brief Life History of Jennet
When Jennet Hay was born on 24 May 1838, in Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Alexander Hay, was 29 and her mother, Janet Ballantyne, was 24. She married Andrew Hoffman on 1 January 1852, in Hamilton Creek, Burnet, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in St Pancras, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Bandera, Texas, United States in 1860. She died on 1 April 1863, in Bandera, Bandera, Texas, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in Bandera, Bandera, Texas, United States.
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- Ann Hay in household of Alexander Hay, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Janette Hay, "Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1837-1910"
- Jeanette Hay in household of Andrew Ballantine, "United States Census, 1850"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1843 · The Disruption in the Church of Scotland
The Disruption of 1843 was a division within the Church of Scotland, which 474 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away from the Church to form the Free Church of Scotland. They didn’t reject the principles of the Church of Scotland but were trying to establish a purer version of the Church without the King or Parliament being its head. It had huge effects not only within the Church of Scotland, but also with Scottish civic life.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (northern; of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy called La Haie or La Haye (Old French haie ‘hedge, enclosure’, ‘forest for hunting deer and other animals’, a borrowing of the ancient Germanic word haga). Robert de Haia or de la Haye is known to have come from La Haye-du-Puits in Manche; he was the founder of Boxgrove Priory in Sussex (1123), and holder of the Honor of Halnaker (Sussex) and (by marriage) the barony of Kolswein (Lincolnshire). The Norman name was also taken to Ireland, where it has since flourished in the county of Wexford as Hay and Hayes . Elsewhere in Ireland the name usually has a native Irish origin, see below.
English: topographic name from Middle English hay(e), heye, heghe ‘enclosure’ (Old English (ge)hæg) or ‘forest fenced off for hunting’ (Old French haie); or else a habitational name from a place so called, such as Hay (in Herefordshire and Westmorland) or Hey in Scammonden (Yorkshire). It was no doubt sometimes synonymous with Hayward .
English: nickname for a tall man, from Middle English heigh, hey, high ‘high, tall’ (Old English hēah).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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