When Harlan Eugene Nye was born on 24 September 1853, in Dalton, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Harlan W Nye, was 28 and his mother, Mary Jane Hathaway, was 20. He married Harriet Eliza Hathaway on 24 March 1878, in Dalton, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States for about 30 years and Plainfield, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1937. He died about 9 October 1937, at the age of 84.
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English (southern): from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atten eye, atten ye ‘at the island’ (Old English ēg, īeg ‘island’), becoming atte nye. The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on an island or patch of firm ground surrounded by marsh, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Nye in Winscombe, Somerset.
English: alternatively, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atten eye, atten ee ‘at the river’ (Old English ēa ‘river’), becoming atte nee. The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived near a river, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Neigh Bridge in Somerford Keynes, Wiltshire.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 聶, see Nie 2.
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