Today is Henry Harrison Dean's birthday. He is 215 years old, born in 1793. Henry Harrison was born in Patrick Virginia, the first Henry Harrison, son of William Henry Harrison Dean, who had come from England. He is Daddy/Grandpa's great-great-grandfather.
It has been generally concluded that Wm Henry Harrison was a man from Dean, England, which he always wrote next to his name thus:
William Henry Harrison, Dean, England.
His sons may have followed the same practice. This garnered them the new last name of Dean. Both boys and grandsons of the first - Wm H. H. Dean - in our line have the middle name of Harrison, which is unusual unless, this is what happened and they were preserving the original name of Harrison, which migrated to being their middle names. I can't help wondering what all transpired for this to come about, how many times they were called by the 'wrong' name -Dean- before they finally gave in.
Did the younger boys argue with their fathers to aquiesce to the new name? It is likely public records stated the surname as Dean, for one thing and it may have been an argument that they just didn't win. There has been a lot of searching done for the original Dean, England and William Henry Harrison. As far as I know, nothing has shown up. So we are Deans. It's a good name.
5 years ago
2 comments:
If I could get Jeff to go for the name Henry, I'd name our baby Henry Harrison Robb. I always liked the name Henry. It's a good story too, to preserve some of those things.
You always did like the name Henry. And it seems to be rather popular lately.I think there are three Henry Harrisons after the original William H.H. -it would be a great family name. I would love it!!
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