Hanna Family History
Hanna Name Meaning
Irish (especially northeastern Ulster): shortened Anglicized
form of Gaelic Ó hAnnaigh ‘descendant of Annach’, a
byname of uncertain meaning.English: from the medieval female
personal name Hannah or Anna, ultimately from Hebrew
Chana ‘He (God) has favored me’ (i.e. with a child). The name
is borne in the Bible by the mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 1: 1–28),
and there is a tradition (unsupported by Biblical evidence) that it
was the name of the mother of the Virgin Mary; this St. Anne was a
popular figure in medieval art and legend.Scottish: variant of
Hannay.German: from a pet form of the personal name
Hans.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hanna
Name Distribution of Hanna Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hanna families
 80 - 158  27 - 79 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hanna families
|
49 - 95 17 - 48 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hanna census records
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Hanna Family Origin
Hanna Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hanna Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hanna Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hanna census records
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Military Service by Hanna
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