Brief Life History of Una
When Una Hawthorne was born on 3 March 1844, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Nathaniel Hawthorne, was 39 and her mother, Sophia Amelia Peabody, was 34. She lived in Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1850. She died on 10 September 1877, in London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 33, and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Una Hawthorn in household of Nathaniel Hawthorn, "United States Census, 1850"
- Una Hawthorne, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Una Hawthorne, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1852 · First Public Lavatory Erected
George Jenning was the person that invented and gave us the public lavatory. It cost people a penny to use.
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Hawthorne (Hill) in Bray (Berkshire), an altered form of Hothorne, earlier Horethorn (Old English hār + thorn ‘boundary thorn(-tree)’. A common variant of the surname in 17th-century Bray and neighboring Binfield was Hathorne .
English (Gloucestershire): topographic name for someone who lived by a hawthorn tree (Middle English hawthorn).
English (Staffordshire): variant of Hordern, a habitational name from Hordern (in Rainow, Cheshire), Horderns in Chapel en le Frith (Derbyshire), Hordron in Langsett (Yorkshire), Little Hordern in Bolton le Moors (Lancashire), and perhaps from Hardhorn in Poulton le Fylde (Lancashire). All the placenames derive from Old English hord-ærn ‘storehouse’. By the early 17th century the surname had arrived in Staffordshire, where it was sometimes re-interpeted as Hawthorne.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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