When William Fielding Hanna was born on 12 November 1892, in Middle Musquodoboit, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Samuel Hanna, was 44 and his mother, Mary Archibald McCurdy, was 33. He lived in Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America for about 10 years. He died on 25 September 1972, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 79.
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Irish (Down and Antrim) and Scottish: from Gaelic Ó hAnnaigh ‘descendant of Annach’, a personal name of uncertain origin, or from Gaelic Ó hÉanna ‘descendant of Éanna’, also unexplained but well attested. See also Hannan . It has been suggested that the name may also derive from Sheanaigh, a genitive case form of the Gaelic personal name Seanach, but this is untenable. This was one of very few ‘Ó’ surnames to be used in Scotland, a phenomenon which was confined to the Galloway and Carrick region.
English: habitational name from Hannah (Lincolnshire), possibly derived from the Old English personal name Hana or Old English hana ‘cock’ + ēg ‘island’.
English: sometimes in East Anglia a variant of Henney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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