When Emma Hastings was born on 13 May 1853, in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Hastings, was 42 and her mother, Jane Burdett, was 34. She married Robert Rushton Dinsdale about 1870, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. She died on 1 June 1871, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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English and Scottish: habitational name from Hastings (Sussex), near which the English army was defeated by the Normans in 1066. The placename derives from an Old English personal name Hǣsta + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas. In the latter part of the 12th century, at the time of William the Lion, the surname was taken to Scotland, where it assimilated instances of the native Scottish surname Harestane.
English: variant of Hasting with Middle English genitival -s.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistín ‘descendant of Oistín’, the Gaelic form of the personal name Augustine (see Austin ).
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