♀Hannah E. Merryman

Hannah E. Merryman (about 1848 – 1867) was a daughter of the Brunswick, Maine, mariner John Merryman (1808–1891) and Eleanor C. McManus (1809–1891), and one of their ten children. She was the great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of William Simpson Merryman (1840–1909), Nancy Jane’s great-grandfather.

The 1905 Merryman genealogy by the Rev. Charles Nelson Sinnett gives her birth as 12 May 1848 and writes her name Hannah Ellen. It also records that she was the second daughter of the family to bear that name: the first Hannah Ellen, born in 1829, had died in January 1844, four years before her namesake was born.

The 1850 census of Brunswick lists Hannah E., aged two, in a crowded house. Her father was a mariner, and with her parents and eight of the children lived her mother’s father, Robert McManus, a farmer of eighty-five. Among her brothers and sisters were William Simpson, then ten, and Richard, thirteen. By 1870 she was no longer in the household, which then held her parents, her sisters Lydia and Linda, and a ship master named Charles Merryman. No marriage is recorded for her.

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Death year

The death year used here is 1867. A Riverside Cemetery record of the family lot lists a daughter called “Ellie”, 1848 to 1867, beside John and Eleanor, and that entry is taken to be Hannah. Sinnett’s genealogy prints her death as October 1869. The two dates are two years apart.