When Anne Hankford Countess of Ormond was born in January 1428, in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England, her father, Sir Richard Hankford, was 30 and her mother, Anne Montague, was 45. She married Thomas Butler 7th Earl of Ormond about 11 July 1445, in England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 13 November 1485, at the age of 57, and was buried in Wapping, London, England, United Kingdom.
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Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
English (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Hackforth (North Yorkshire) or Hackford (Norfolk). The former is named with Old English haca ‘hook’ + ford ‘ford’, meaning ‘ford at the bend’. The latter likely has the same etymology, or may contain the Old English personal name Haca.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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