Brief Life History of Betty
When Betty Harris was born in 1933, in Bloomingdale, Pompton Township, Passaic, New Jersey, United States, her father, Arthur Kennedy, was 45 and her mother, Hilda Van Dunk, was 30. She died in 2007, in Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 74.
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Parents and Siblings
1888–1973 Male
1903–1938 Female
Siblings (6)
1922–2011 Female
1925–1944 Male
1928–1988 Male
1929–1956 Female
1930–1999 Male
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World Events (8)
1933
Age 0
1935 · The FBI is Established
Age 2
1954 · Nike Missile Sites (Cold War)
Age 21
Name Meaning
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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