Brief Life History of Joseph Hoar
When Joseph Hoar Reeves was born in 1758, his father, Robert Reeves, was 36 and his mother, Grace Spaight, was 28. He married Anna Neville Somerville on 2 March 1784, in County Cork, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Athgarvan, County Kildare, Ireland in 1860.
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Sources (8)
- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Hoar Reeves - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Joseph Hoar Reeves
- Joseph Reeves, "Ireland, Diocesan and Prerogative Marriage License Bonds Indexes, 1623-1866"
- Joseph R Reeves, Esq in entry for John Henry Healy, Lieut, "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices"
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World Events (4)
1798
Battle of Antrim.
1798
The Young Ireland rebellion of 1798 failed.
1839
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Reeve , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: from Middle English reve + genitival -s, for the son, daughter, wife, or servant of a reeve or of someone surnamed Reeve .
English: from Middle English atte Reves, a topographic and occupational name for someone who lived and probably worked ‘at the reeve's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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