Brief Life History of Delana
When Delana Lapham was born on 23 March 1807, in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Sylvanus Lapham, was 37 and her mother, Keziah Barstow, was 32. She married Ephraim Lund Hardy on 24 May 1838, in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died on 9 March 1877, in Brookline, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Brookline, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Delany Hardy, "United States Census, 1880"
- Delany Lapham, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Delaney Hardy im Eintrag für John B. Hardy und Caroline E. Richardson, „Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915“
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English: probably a habitational name from Lopham, a place in Norfolk, so named from an Old English personal name Loppa + hām ‘village, homestead’.
Americanized form of French Lapalme .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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