Hannah Harvey

Brief Life History of Hannah

When Hannah Harvey was born on 4 June 1802, in Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Eli Harvey, was 29 and her mother, Mary Painter, was 26. She married Robert Peirce on 23 January 1821, in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Alta California, Mexico in 1847 and lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 26 October 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Peirce
1797–1884
Hannah Harvey
1802–1872
Marriage: 23 January 1821
Mary Harvey Pierce
1821–1847
Margaret Pierce
1823–1907
Anna Eliza Peirce
1826–1829
Eli Harvey Peirce
1827–1858
Thomas Peirce
1829–1864
Joseph PeIrce
1831–1831
William Peirce
1833–1908
Edith Evalina Peirce
1836–1917
Elizabeth Peirce
1839–1844

Sources (54)

  • Hannah Price in household of Robert Price, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Hannah Harvey, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
  • Hannah Harvey, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"

World Events (8)

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital

Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. 

1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land

A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): from the Old French and Middle English personal name Hervei, also found as Herveu, Hervé, and Hervi. The name Herveu or Herv(e)i was borne by a number of Bretons at the Norman Conquest and, as such, represents a French form of the Old Breton name Hoiearnviu or Hærviu (see Herve ). Among Normans Herve(i) or Herv(e)i was also a French form of ancient Germanic Hariwic, Herewic (from hari ‘army’ + wīg ‘war’), with intervocalic /w/ becoming /v/ in Old French. The Breton and ancient Germanic names were commonly Latinized as Herve(i)us and Hervic(i)us respectively but, since their most common vernacular forms in Old French were indistinguishable, the Latin forms were also sometimes interchangeable, especially Herveus.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAirmheadhaigh ‘descendant of Airmheadhach’, a personal name probably meaning ‘esteemed’. It seems to be a derivative of Airmheadh, the name borne by a mythological physician.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchaidh ‘descendant of Earchadh’, a personal name of uncertain origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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