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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Battle of Antrim.
The Young Ireland rebellion of 1798 failed.
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.
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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