When Alice W. Haswell was born about 1867, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Amos Kelley Haswell, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Kelly, was 28. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870.
English (Durham): habitational name from Haswell (Durham) or, less probably, from Haswell (Somerset) or Haswell in North Huish (Devon). The placenames probably derive from Old English hæsel ‘hazel’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
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